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The Daily Dispatch: October 7, 1862., [Electronic resource], New Plan for lighting theatres. (search)
New Plan for lighting theatres. --At the two new theatres in the Place de Chatelet — the Cirque and the Theatre Lyrique — the first experiment was tried lately in a new system of lighting, by M. Daviond. The new made supersedes entirely the old chandelier, which was well enough in the days of lamp oil. The era of gas demands something better. "imagine," says a reporter for one of the journals, "imagine for the ceiling of the vast hail an immense ground glass occupying the whole of the cupola, behind this place say 1,500 gas-burners, and above them a sort of great white cap, serving as a reflector, and sending down the light. This passes through the ground glass and falls like a soft rain over the entire ball, which it fills with a brilliant light, and yet which has nothing harsh or fatiguing to the eyes. Not a single gas-burner is seen throughout the theatre, and yet it is lit up to its darkest corners. You are able to read a paper on the last row of the parterre, which is,