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IN your interesting article on the experiments on lighthouse illumination now in progress at the South Foreland (p. 362) the writer alludes to the remarkable quenching influence of even a light mist on the electric light as compared with either gas or oil lights, and suggests that the smaller area of the illuminating centre in the case of electricity may have something to do with the matter.
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MUNRO, J. The Electric Light for Lighthouses. Nature 30, 406–407 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/030406a0
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