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THE European and American community occupying the so-called foreign concessions in Shanghai has ately adopted the electric light. The illustration given below is the reproduction of a Chinese drawing representing the light and a semaphore with a time-ball in the French concession. It is taken from La Nature and originally appeared in a Chinese illustrated journal called the Hu-pao, which described the illustration in the follow ing manner:—
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The Semaphore and Electric Light at Shanghai . Nature 31, 603–604 (1885). https://doi.org/10.1038/031603a0
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