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From the Rolls-Royce experimental archive: a quarter of a million communications from Rolls-Royce, 1906 to 1960's. Documents from the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation (SHRMF).
Note on how candle power varies for metal and carbon filament lamp bulbs based on terminal P.D.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 166\4\  img101
Date  2nd February 1931
  
X6089

2.2.31.

X.6089. METAL FILAMENT LAMP BULBS.

The candle power of metal filament lamp bulbs varies approximately as the 4½th power of the terminal P.D.

N.B. In the case of carbon filament lamps this is the 5½ power.

EFC.
  
  


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