Nernst lamps forming a starburst pattern of electric lights radiating from a central point on the ceiling in the Westinghouse Section of the Electricity Building.

Electric lamps--Exhibitions

Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company--Exhibitions

Pan-American Exposition (1901 : Buffalo, N.Y.). Electricity Building

Pan-American Exposition (1901 : Buffalo, N.Y.)--Photographs

View of a ceiling display with multiple Nerst electric lamps radiating outward in streaks from a central point, creating a starburst effect in the Westinghouse Section of the Electricity Building at the Pam-Am Exposition, Buffalo, New York. Window frames are faintly visible at the bottom edges of the image. The lighting filament was made of lime-like minerals that, when heated by electric current, gave off a "the most dazzling white light." The fifty-candle Nernst lamp was three times brighter than the normal incandescent lamp of the period, and consumed half the energy.

Everybody's Magazine, v. 5, no. 26 (October 1901), p. 392.

State University of New York at Buffalo. University Libraries

1901-10

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