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Excerpt from The Nernst Glower: Its Development, Characteristics and Application to Illumination Practice
Of only the low efficiency, low candle power, carbon incandescent lamp on the one hand and the high efficiency, high candle power are lamp on the other hand until the advent of the Hornet lamp. By reason of the fact that the Nemst lamp was the only electrical illuminmt of high efficiency and was obtainable in any desired candle power, a timely weapon was placed at the disposal of Central Station interests which would cover the entire field and successfully fill the existing gap between the electric arc and the carbon filament incandescent lamp. Inasmuch as the incandescent electric lamp. Under which the Nernst lamp is properly classified as a Special design, has become such a common necessity abd useful factor in every civilized community, it is to be expected that the problem of its development to a high state of perfection is one of wide-spread interest. Relatively speaking, but little publicity has been given to the Nemst lamp in comparison to that given by the army of individuals financially interested in the development and exploitation of vacuum lamps and, in the Opinion of the writer, the embodied principles of the Nernst glower offer greater possibilities for development into an ideal illminant than any other type of lamp tnovm at the present time, md, were the vast amount of energy and capital which has already been expended in the development of vacuum lamps, directed to the scientific investigation and commercial.
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