Unit of luminous intensity.
1Each lamp is of sixteen candle power with no perceptible variation in intensity.
2A sixteen candle power electric lamp is the most desirable.
3Each one will produce 450 million candle power.
4At once a light starts up, between the carbon pencils, of a thousand- candle power or more.
5A hundred candle power easily.
6These burners can be made of 2,000 candle power, down to fifty candle power.
7This also supplies a means of still maintaining the candle power when the batteries are partially exhausted, by connecting them in series.
8The interior of each car is lighted by twenty-six 10- candle power lamps, in addition to four lamps provided for platforms and markers.
9Some of the exhibits on show include the aforementioned Baily Optic, whose light was originally equivalent to 2,000,000 candle power.
10In halls, closets, and bathroom lower-power lamps, or the "hylo," which may be alternated from one- to sixteen- candle power, will prove an economy.
11The dynamo is designed to feed sixty lamps of 16 candle power each, the current being 60 amperes at 50 volts.
12Tabulating these results we have-Costof enriching a 16-candlegas up to 17.5 candle power per 1,000 cubic feet by cannel coal, 4d.
13The light is an incandescant oil-vapor lamp, runs on kerosene, and gives out a 24,000- candle power beam visible for 13 miles in clear weather.
14According to their statement each lamp was of 16- candle power- Iaccepttheir statement as correct; this will give us an aggregate of 992 candles.
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16One of the skinheads flicked on a handheld spotlight, throwing thousands of candle powers in a single, blinding beam stabbing across the field.
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