Abstract

The Utilities Keep It Dark

The article presents the information that the new fluorescent tube lighting available in stores in the U.S. produces from 100 to 200 per cent more light than incandescent lamps for the same amount of electrical energy. But the advertising done by manufacturers of fluorescent tube lamps seldom, if ever, mentions this verifiable fact. In order to understand this unwonted reticence on the part of the large lamp manufacturers, it is necessary to look at the relationship between them and the privately owned utilities, which produce electricity for lighting. The General Electric Co. and Westinghouse Corp., which between them control the Mazda patents covering tungsten-filament incandescent lamps, enjoy a virtual monopoly in lamp manufacture.