Candle Power
The Standart Electrical Dictionary · 1892 · p. 2
The amount of light given by the standard candle. The legal English and standard American candle is a sperm candle burning two grains a minute. It should have burned some ten minutes before use, and the wick should be bent over and have a red tip. Otherwise its readings or indications are usele . A sixteen candle power lamp means a lamp giving the light of sixteen candles. The candle power is a universal unit of illuminating power. 101 STANDARD ELECTRICAL DICTIONARY.
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