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WE need not insist on the extreme importance and interest of the exhibition which was opened last night at the Albert Hall, and for which extensive preparations have been making for some time. The public mind both in this country and abroad has been recently much agitated on the question of electric lighting, and, as might be expected, people are much confused among the many systems which have been brought forward, and even those who know something of the subject must find it difficult to make up their minds. Hence the importance of bringing together the various systems of electric lighting in such a way as to make comparison possible. It must, moreover, have an important educational influence upon the general public, helping somewhat to give them a truer idea of what physical science is, and what it is capable of doing for the good of mankind. The exhibition was opened last night by an able and interesting lecture by Mr. W. H. Preece, the chair being occupied by the Prince of Wales.
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Electric Lighting . Nature 20, 39 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/020039b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/020039b0