ARTIFICIAL ILLUMINATION.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3454, 4 October 1913, Page 3

ARTIFICIAL ILLUMINATION.

THE ADVENT OF “NORVIC” GAS. History does not record how, or where, man first endeavored to imitate tho sun, but some _ inventive genius in the Stone Age discovered a method of ignition by obtaining sparks from flint, and thereby setting alight some tinder-like substance, in the shape of dried fungus. Them, came fish oil with a vegetable fibre wick floating oh the surface, and so, step by step, as the world progressed, various methods of lighting, more or less crude, were introduced, until there evolved the most useful of our present day possessions, the tallow candle. Paraffin oil lambs wore the next step, and only date back for a matter of sixty or seventy years. Coal gas followed, then electricity and now even;, with sucli a convenient ar.d perfect form of illumination as the latter, men’s brains are still trying to conceive ideas for the improvement and cheapening of artificial lighting. One of the most improved and ec >- nomical forms of artificial lighting that has resulted from recent scientific research is the. “Norvie” system. “Norvie’’ Light is produced by a gas in which ordinary air is largely used in combination with about H per cent, of petrol vapour. It will therefore lie readily understood at the outset that the consumption of actual, gas is exceedingly small, while the light Pip' vided is clean, and free from offensive smell or smoke. ......... “Norvie” Light is artificial illumination in its safest form.. There are no poisonous fumes, as with eon I gas; the gas will only ignite by means ot a. mantle, which, if broken, instantly puts tho light out. 11l the 0 an 'escape the gas quickly diffuses) and, being in such a. very minute form, when further mixed with air it becomes absolutely harmless. The premises in Gladstone Hoad ot Mr J. S. Allen, who is the sub-agent for Poverty Bay, will be illuminated by “Norvie” gas this evening *