. The science-history of the universe . Fig. 11 —Pixits Magne-to-electric Machine,1832. Fig. 12 —An Alliance DynamoUsed in the South ForelandLichthouse, 1858. duced by the united labors of M. Nollet, Professor ofPhysics at the Military School of Brussels, and his assist-ant constructor, Joseph van Malderen, under the auspicesof a corporation composed of French and English capi-talists and known as the Alliance Company. Strange tosay, this machine was built with the absurd object ofusing it to decompose water and employ the resulting gasesin the production of light. This machine, with some modi

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. The science-history of the universe . Fig. 11 —Pixits Magne-to-electric Machine,1832. Fig. 12 —An Alliance DynamoUsed in the South ForelandLichthouse, 1858. duced by the united labors of M. Nollet, Professor ofPhysics at the Military School of Brussels, and his assist-ant constructor, Joseph van Malderen, under the auspicesof a corporation composed of French and English capi-talists and known as the Alliance Company. Strange tosay, this machine was built with the absurd object ofusing it to decompose water and employ the resulting gasesin the production of light. This machine, with some modifications by Mr. Holmes,of England, was, under the superintendence of Faraday; i92 ELECTRICITY himself, introduced into two of the English lighthouses,at South Foreland and at Dungeness. Its preliminarytrial was made in 1857. The electric light was first thrownover the sea from the South Foreland on the evening ofDecember 8, 1858, and from Dungeness on the 6th ofJune, 1862. Fig. 12 shows in outline one of the Alli-ance machines, as

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