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...digging, but had to give up only four feet down when the pit caved in. A dozen men stepped back into the hole with hand shovels, shoring up the crumbling walls every foot of the way. At 11 p.m., Benny's hand quivered in the light of a flashlamp trained down the well. It was his last movement. Dried out by the hissing oxygen, fine salt sand drifted softly over the child's head...
Instead of the usual powder flashlights, the cameramen used the new electric flashlamp that leaves no smoke, makes no bang. After the President . had been "shot" signing the bills, he inspected the lamp. "That's a new one," he said...
Publisher Hearst, unscathed by the explosion, recalled reports of General Electric's new safe flashlamp, self-contained in a glass bulb (TIME, Aug. 13). A few minutes after returning to his hotel he issued telegraphic orders to all Hearst editors to "throw away all flashlight powder that is on hand to remove the temptation of using it." He ordered the new flashlamps and "candid cameras" (TIME, Feb. 17) for all Hearstpapers...
Instead of the old unwieldy magnesium powder pan, the new flashlamp looks like an ordinary incandescent bulb. Filled with oxygen, the bulb contains a specially coated filament and crumpled sheets of thin aluminum foil. When the circuit is closed the filament lights, ignites the aluminum foil. Each bulb is used only once. The lamp can be plugged in on an ordinary 115-volt alternating current circuit, or can be used with batteries. The flash lasts only 1/100 sec. Being completely self-contained, offering no fire hazard, the flashlamp can be used where flashlight photographs have never been taken before...
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