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          Apparently source-less lighting, highly efficient, with no waste heat. | 
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          | I recall from history that at your time, 
during the Steel Age you thought yourselves quite 
accomplished when you succeeded in heating a wire 
in vacuum or some inert gas, and thus securing a 
light having an efficiency of three or five per cent. 
We use cold light with an efficiency of ninety to ninety- 
five per cent. We are using but one lamp at present 
in this room and it consumes a little less than three 
watts yet it is as effective as ninety or a hundred watt 
lamp of the old style. 
 
"There is nothing mysterious about it, however, 
much as it differs from the old method. We use a 
tiny short-wave radio transmitter sealed in a tube of 
fused quartz. Here," he opened a compartment in the 
wail and took out a spare tube. "You will notice that 
point inside the tube— it is tipped with a radio-active 
material which emits a stream of electrons. The grid 
and plate are connected electrostatically for the feedback. The rate of oscillation is varied until it is of 
the frequency of white light and the movable adjustment is welded in place with a ray welder focussed 
through the quartz tube. We have other lamps on 
board that are adjusted to emit colored light ; and the 
searchlights we are using at the moment are infra-red. 
These rays are invisible but penetrate the mists well, 
and the reflected beams are picked up on the television plates around the shell of the vessel, being interpreted as white light on the screens before the control 
table. We are thus able to see where we are going and 
to view the ground, while to anyone without apparatus 
we are invisible. We have an adjustable light in 
another room if you care to examine it" 
 
With the help of the captain, Addison managed to 
navigate into another room where the officer touched 
a button on the door casing and the room was flooded 
with white light. With a dial on the switch plate, 
connected through the walls with the mounting of the 
lamp, the officer rotated the bulb, changing the light 
through the entire spectrum of colors as he varied 
the wave length. The colors were brilliant, not at all 
like the results from the old method of shining a white 
light through a prism, for there was something vital 
about the colors emitted. And Addison marveled.   | 
         
        
          Technovelgy from The Silent Destroyer,
              by Henri Dahl Juve.  
Published by Air Wonder Stories in 1929 
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