Excerpt from The Phonogram, Vol. 1: A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Science of Sound and Recording of Speech; April, 1891
The town of Hammerfest, Norway, has just put in an electric plant. It is situated in latitude degrees, and for many months in the year the sun does not shine, so that the introduction of twelve electric runs, in the shape of arc lamps, is a great triumph for science.
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