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Identifier: TheMaximElectricLightAndPowerCo.Philadelphia_595
Title: The Maxim Electric Light and Power Co., Philadelphia.
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: United States Electric Lighting Company
Subjects: electricity Division 26 lighting power supply
Publisher: United States Electric Lighting Company
Contributing Library: Canadian Centre for Architecture

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tendant. I Ins is obviously objeCti„nable, as it involves the presence of an attendanta th, machmeandI acadenti cur, and in fact do occur in practice, from lack of a Mention. Mr Maxm, has devised an ingenious regulator for accomplishing this^automatically, wh.ch has attracted much attention and works well in practiceMr Weston, however haS been able, by a peculiar construction of the machine itself- make ,t entirely self regulating without the use of any specia. mechanism This ratesmth such .puck,,, Ss and precision, that, with one hundred lights for example J r11- nKt>-in! «* hmied out without affecting the Scy «.f he r.nauun, hg „ly cha,^ ,„ ^ WtajC, , * /V. V **■« M accomplishes this most desiraTu „Z In o re ,t ,s desirable to vary the illuminating power of the 1 ,m, , rfnuUr ^ that used with the arc machines is suppheo 1 T * ther machine in the markincandescent lamp, which is shown full sizc. in th(. ,„t fl ^* ^;:^^l;;r:z THE UNITED STATES ELECTRIC LIGHTING CO. 19
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The Maxim Incandescent Lamp. THE UNITED STATES ELECTRIC LIGHTING CO. tiding the disinteg ful currents. One of the dm lam; tit of twenty-five candles, was run for a short tim- n illuminatin n hundred candles. We nt lamp would i The life- im lamp, when run at its normal power, is ver) long. In plants which haw ■ uring tl i lifetime of the lumps bus been m\ lamps which hav< been burning fromusand 1 still iiit A i hinc unci ninety-seven tarted in tin Mew-York that tiuu the machine has Iniai k without repaii ident, and on the lamp • n hundn d and fifty which had burned continuously thirty-fourmr tdition thi i« n ; -; of the lit plant hudind put into pi... tical « omnu n ial : l \ I pthe t< m will be hti.M) in ; beW 4ain T -„„., rrupn in die THE UNITED STATES ELECTRIC LIGHTING CO. 21

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