ment. The ten lights in use are the most effective yet seen in actual practice. One of the reasons of the better behaviour of the Jrbloohkoff candle on the Thames Embankment than elsewhere will probably be found in the superior motive power applied to the generating engine, and the amount of care and skill displayed in firmly fixing and bolting down all the mechanism employed. Thinking it possible that the failure of many attempts at electric lighting were due to the haste with which the ap paratus had been set up, Mr Head, of Messrs Ransomes, Sims, and Head, of Ipswich, took great pains that the twenty-horse power engine lent by his firm for these experiments should be in thorough wooing order before, any at tempts at lighting were made, and, also that the duplex Gramme machine for generating the alternate currents, re quired by the Jablochkoff candle, should b p y so firmly placed as to cause no acci dental vibration. The result is a com plete success. The experiments on the Holborn Viaduct have also been, satisfac tory. The quality of the light, as well as its quantity, appears to be establishing it firmly in public favor, and the objections as to the ghastliness of its hue and the weird effect of the deep shadows urged, against the light as utilised in Paris have found no echo in London. > ...
