Nernst lamps

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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"