Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1894 — A Monitor Lamp. [ARTICLE]

A Monitor Lamp.

The Echo des Mines announces the invention by a young Belgian of a lamp such as has never been seen before. The lamp Is composed of 3,000 piecea It is six feet high and measures three feet ten Inches in diameter. Its light is so strong that one can read . by it a distance of 600 feet The lamp' is fed with lard oil, and the consumption is said to be very small