|  Electrical Ideas, Experiments, and Inventions  Electrical Images below lead to the rest of the stories on new and old ideas, inventions, and experiments: Nicola Tesla extended an interview with Associate Editor, H. Winfield Secor of The Electrical Experimenter’ magazine in 1917. In the August issue, under the title “Tesla’s Views on Electricity and the War,” the world famous electrical inventor's avant-garde opinions were published as follows: . . . Westinghouse, Nikola Tesla's employer, manufactured Mazda lamps early in the twentieth century for Bausch & Lomb Balopticons and other magic lanterns. They are interesting lights that seem to have an everlasting nature. This is attested to by some of the pictures and animations below. Furthermore, the following pictures of “Gas-filled Mazda Lamps” offered by the Bausch & Lomb Optical Company in their 1927 catalog should also be of interest—especially to Ebay sellers and buyers as well as magic-lantern historians and collectors. To the two tinted half tone pictures of them found therein, Larry Brian Radka has added some colored photographs and animations of two more Mazda lamps found among his inventory of rusty magic lanterns and carbon arc lights not yet restored to their original condition. The description of the two “Gas-filled Mazda Lamps” included in the Bausch & Lomb catalog runs as follows:
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