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UNDER the above title Mr. Munro describes, in NATURE, vol. xvi. p. 422, M. Lodighin's device for an electric light. This is no novelty but a simple repetition of an invention made by Mr. Starr, a young American, and patented in.this country under the title of “King's Patent Electric Light,” specification enrolled March 25, 1846. An account of it, with drawings, may be found in the Mechanic's Magazine, April 25, 1846, p. 312. To this are appended some editorial remarks in which the novelty of the invention was at that date disputed. Those who care to follow the subject further may find a letter of mine replying to this editorial criticism in the Mechanic's Magazine of May 9, 1846, p. 348.
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WILLIAMS, W. New Electric Lights. Nature 16, 459–460 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/016459a0
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