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Committee on science and the arts

Book ID
104115738
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1901
Tongue
English
Weight
304 KB
Volume
152
Category
Article
ISSN
0016-0032

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✦ Synopsis

Vice-President WASHINGTON JONES in the chair. Present, 148 members and visitors. Additions to membership since last report, I5. President Birkinbine, who assumed the chair, introduced Mr. Alex. J. Wurts, of Pittsburgh, who gave an interesting description of the Nernst incandescent electric lamp, as modified and improved by himself and associates in connection with the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. This American type of lamp is now so far perfected that the company above named is about to place them upon the market.

M r. Wurts recounted the numerous difficulties which had been encountered and successfully overcome in adapting the crude invention of Nernst to meet the conditions oΒ’ practical service.

Mr. Wurts had installed a number of the new lamps in the lecture room, which was brilliantly illuminated.

The subject was discussed at considerable length by Messrs.

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