| Main Performers | W H Preece Esq (Postal Telgraphic Department) - speaker |
| Set List | Lecture with illustrations (W H Preece) |
| Performance Notes | The following information was taken from The Times, 8 May 1879:
- The Arena seats were removed for the Exhibition to make way for electric lighting inventions and their inventors to demonstrate them to the public. The central displays were for viewing only but the lamps displayed at the edge of the Arena were in working order. Siemens's arrangement was fitted above the centre of the dome, and in the upper gallery there was a Jablochiroff lamp in each arch. The engines working the machines were housed at the west Arena entrance, the working electric machines were in the engine-room, those not working were in the Arena, alongside regulators, candles, incandescent lamps, specimens of carbons and photoelectric apparatus for comparing the electric with other lights.
- There was also a collection of historical apparatus, with illustrations of many applications for electric lighting, such as for surgical and dental operations, and a collection of wires and cables.
"The Council of the Albert Hall, recognizing the wide interest in electrical lighting, have decided upon offering special facilities by which the leading scientific principles upon which the subject is based, as well as the distinctive differences of some of the methods which have been devised for its practical application, may be more extensively made known."
(The Times, 15 April 1879) |