How was it that I was able to look upon that vast sheet of water instead of being plunged in utter darkness? The vast landscape before me was lit up like day. One thing startled and puzzled me greatly. Harry speculates that the light is caused by some electromagnetic phenomena:
The first occurrence of an unexplained light source is in the Central Sea (literally a sea in a cave), which is illuminated by an unknown source. The clever and patient hunter had succeeded in lighting the lantern and though, in the keen and thorough draft, the flame flickered and vacillated and was nearly put out, it served partially to dissipate the awful obscurity.Ī Journey to the Center of the Earth Chapter 39: "The Explosion and Its Results"īut this quickly goes out it doesn't survive to the end of the chapter.īut there are a couple of fanciful examples: The other is broken during the escape from the Central Sea.Īfter escaping the Central Sea, Hans manages to light a fire in the remains of one of the Ruhmkorff coils:
Harry breaks one of these coils in Chapter 23, when he falls. Two Ruhmkorff coils, which, by means of a current of electricity, would ensure us a very excellent, easily carried, and certain means of obtaining light.Ī Journey to the Center of the Earth Chapter 8: "The Eider-Down Hunter - Off At Last".The instruments were of course of the best manufacture: There were, in fact, four distinct groups.
The garden was full of ropes, rope ladders, torches, gourds, iron clamps, crowbars, alpenstocks, and pickaxes-enough to load ten men.Ī Journey to the Center of the Earth Chapter 4: "We Start on the Journey"įor much of their journey, the travellers are carrying Ruhmkorff coils:Īll our industry and ability were devoted to packing every object in the most advantageous manner-the instruments on one side, the arms on the other, the tools here and the provisions there. My uncle had been hard at work all the afternoon. They set out with torches, though they rarely use them for fear of causing an explosion (emphasis mine): Most of the light sources are quite mundane:
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