Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1895 — Mill Lighting in India. [ARTICLE]

Mill Lighting in India.

A new and interesting field for electric lighting has been suggested in the construction of some large mills in Bombay. The proprietors of these new factory buildings are about to have their card room lit by electricity, not for the purpose of working at night, but to supplement daylight, which in eloudyweather, and at times, even In the morning and evening, is insufficient for the proper carrying on of the work. In Bombay the ordinary practice in the construction of mills appears to have been to make every story as wide as it could be without impairing its illumination by daylight. 'Whenever extensions were proposed, the first consideration was the utilization of daylight, and this question was allowed to dominate almost every other in the plans of construction. The hampering effects of sueli conditions can easily be imagined. It is now found that by combining electric lighting and good ventilation extensions can be made in any direction where the cheapness of land or other considerations make it desirable. In other words, if a factory is surrounded by buildings, and bas much of the bright light which is essential to certain textile industries cut off, its work cau go on, aud even in the gloom of the rainy season neither the quantity or the quality of the product Is affected.