Swedish Inventor's Remarkable Automatic Lightship Stockholm, Feb. 23.
A lightship ordered by the Republic of Colombia and designed to function automatically without any crew was the centre of interest in the Stockholm harbour some. days ago, as it was hoisted on board a cargo steamer bound for Cartagena South America. The ship, which is very strongly built, is 14 metres Jong and 3.2 metres wide, and is in reality a liege floating fight-buoy, as it is so constructed that it re-
Zains its position even after rolling completely round in heavy seas. Te contains water-tight compartments to prevent its sinking, if damaged.
The most remarkable part ix the blinking "Aga" light, which funetions automatically, lighting itself up in darkness or fog and extinguishing itself at daylight. This light will function for two. years without being touched by human hand. It is the invention of Dr.
Gustaf Dalen, called "the blind Edison of Sweden", who has been awarded the Nobel Prize for his inventions, Dr, Dalen, who was blinded and nearly lost hhis life through an explosion while making preliminary experiments for this invention, has rkable automatic trivanee so. sensi darkness that it serves to switch the light on or off automatically. at the air grows dark or light. As fuel for the light he uses' a special highly-compressed acetylene gas for long periods at a kept in strong iron—Reuter.
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