The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-03-22
A New and Brilliant Light = Gas
Snuffed Out.

A new invention, of simple and prac.
teal nature, has of late been successfully
applied in several places in Germany and
France. The system consists of electric
candles, or sticks of charcoal, surrounded
by isolating matter, which gradually con-
sumes, leaving the charcoal free like a
wick, which slowly melts away under the
brilliant glow of electricity. With two
sucL candles light equal to that of 100
gas jets may be thrown on a street. An
electro magnetic machine can keep burn.
ing twenty of these electric candles. The
cost is about half that of gas, and the
light is of the brightest and purest kind.
The Erfelder Zeitung gives the following
account by an eyewitness of the working
of this mode of lighting in the machine
factory of the brothers Nicer, at Glad.
bach: So
1.-The great building was enveloped in
total darkness when we entered Soon
after one of the proprietors lighted the
small developing apparatus, in size not
longer than thirty inches, and in height
not more than sixteen inches. As sOoa
as it was set in operation, bv a small
steam power with which it was connect
ed by belt, the immense machine-room
was instantaneously lit up as bright as
day. At the entrance of the same there
was to be seen only one lamp, at height
of fifteen or sixteen feet, which gave out
a most brilliant and steady light. 1t was
SO clear that the finest shades of indigo.
dyed silks could be easily distinguished
The electric light was distributed in such
manner, through the agency OF mirror,
that long stay in the room in no wise
injuriously affected the eyes. On going
into the garden an electric lantern. sud.
denly lighted, illuminated the whole
neighborhood to such degree that at
100 feet very fine print could be
read, and at $50 feet larger and
ordinary characters were plainly legible.
OF the wonderful properties of this cleo.
trio light we had the clearest proof. and
we were further pleased to learn that in
this establishment the cost is estimated at
a fourth to sixth of gaslight. In large
rooms, halls, public squares and streets
the electric light before long is sure to
take the place OF gas as an Illuminating
agent. In France it is rapidly growing
IN favor, and is in operation in forty es.
adjustments. The immense depot of the
Chemin de Fer du Nord at Paris ia about.
also, to be lighted by this same electric
system. There is no danger whatever of
fire from it, which gives it an immeasura-
bic advantage over all other means of illu-
mination. The Paris Engineers Gramme.
and the Chief Engineer Won Hefener
Alteneck, of the firm of Siemens- Halske.
in Berlin, were the first who constructed
the new electro magnetic machines, by
means of which a pleasing mechanical
power is converted in a similar and mar.
teal manner into electric light. This in.
vention is one of the most remark able Of
modern times. a
+" Outdoor work can be carried on bv
night as well as by day with this light,
as it expels the darkness and fills the at
mosphere with an almost sunlike luster.
In the lighting Of cities hy this new pro
cess, the economy. as compared with cas.
Will be at least fifty per cent. We are
evidently on the eve of az great reyoIu-
ton in lighting IS when gas superseded
oli-laEps and tallow candles. - Aila-
delphia Prses.