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Definition of Candlepowers
1. candlepower [n] - See also: candlepower
Lexicographical Neighbors of Candlepowers
Literary usage of Candlepowers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1918)
"The mining industry has been so educated by advertising literature to look for
excessive candlepowers in safety lamps that it was desirable, to my mind, ..."
2. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1905)
"The mean hemispherical candlepower is the average of the candlepowers taken over
a hemisphere. When a lamp is provided with a shade or a reflector, ..."
3. Practical Testing of Gas and Gas Meters by Charles Henry Howard Stone (1909)
"Considering equal candlepowers, there is no question as to the superiority of
the coal gas in heating value. In the Journal of Gas Lighting, January 14, ..."
4. Encyclopedia of Engineering: A Treatise on Boilers, Steam Engines, the by International School of Engineering (1906)
"candlepowers may also be compared by a method known as Rumford's. Take a pencil
or other opaque rod and place it in front of R white piece of paper or ..."
5. Storage Batteries, Incandescent Lighting, Arc Lighting, Interior Wiring by International Correspondence Schools (1908)
"The mean hemispherical candlepower is the average of the candlepowers taken over
a hemisphere. When a lamp is provided with a shade or a reflector, ..."
6. Bulletin of the Bureau of Standards by Bureau of Standards, United States Bureau of Standards, United States (1909)
"If watts are desired, a similar watt scale may be made whose readings are the
candlepowers in the above scale multiplied by the common watts per candle. ..."
7. Proceedings of the Annual Conference by Indiana Science Teachers' Association, American Society of University Composers (1906)
"... a lamp that will bring- the energy consumption down to one watt per candle
and will not be fragile, and which can be made in units of all candlepowers. ..."
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