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Title

Nernst lamps

Subject

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

Description

Aerial views
Nernst Lamps were displayed overhead in the Westinghouse Section of the Electricity Building. 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.
See also, "High-candlepower Nernst Lamps"

Source

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

Date

1901-10-00

Rights

Type

Image
Night photographs

Identifier

LIB-005_0501

Is Part Of

Illuminations: Revisiting the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition of 1901
LIB-005

Citation

“Nernst lamps,” Digital Collections - University at Buffalo Libraries, accessed July 22, 2025, https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/items/show/95454.