Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-05-16
New and Brilliant Light.

A new invention, of u simple and prac-
tlcal nature, has of late been successfully
applied in several places in Germany and
France. The system consists Of electric
candles, or sticks of charcoal, surround
ed by isolating matter, which gradually
consumes, leaving the charcoal free like
wick, which slowly mells away under the
brilliant glow of electricity. With two
such candles light equal TO that of one
hundred gas Jets may be thrown on the
street. An electromagnetic machine can
keep burning twenty of these electric can:
dies. The cost is about half that of gas,
and the light Of the purest kind. The
Erfelder Zeitung gives the following ac-
count by an eyewitness, of the working
of this mode Of lighting in the machine
factory of the Brothers Nicer, at Glad
bach:
The great building was enveloped in
total darkness when we entered. Soon
after one of the proprietors liz hted the
small developing apparatus, in size not
longer than thirty inches, and in height
not more than sixteen inches As soon rs
it was set in operation, by small steam
power with which it was connected by II
belt, the immense machine-room was in
Simultaneously lit up as bright as day. At
the entrance of the same there was to be
seen one lamp, at II height of fifteen or
sixteen feet which gave out most brill
liant and steady light. 1t was SO clear that
the finest shades of indigo.dyed silks
could be easily distinguished. The cleo
trio light was distributed in such II man.
ner, through the agency of mirror, that
long stay in the room in no way injuri-
ously affected the eyes.
On going into the garden an electric
lantern suddenly lighted, Illuminated the
whole neighborhood to such IL degree that
at one hundred feet very fine print could
be read, and that at two hundred and fifty
feet larger and ordinary characters We're
plainly legible. OF the wonderful prop
critics of this electric light we had the
clearest proof, and VIC were further pleas
ed to learn that in this establishment the
cost is estimated at II fourth TO n sixth OF
gas light. In large rooms, halls, public
squares and streets the electric light, be-
fore long, is sure to take the place of gas
as an Illuminating agent. In France ii is
rapluly growing Ill IlNOI' anu Is III OPcl"'
tion in forty establishments. The immense
depot of the Chemin Fer du Nord, at Paris.
is also 10 be lighted by this same electric
system. There is no danger whatever of
fire from it, which gives it an immeasur-
able advantage over all other means of
illumination. The Paris engineers Gram
me, and the Chief Engineer Won IIefener
Alteneck, of the firm of Siemens- llaIske,
in Berlin, were the first who constructed
the new electromagnetic machines, by
means of which pleasing mechanical
power is converted in simple and practi-
cal manner into electric light This in
is of the most remarkable of modern
times.
"Out-door work can be carried on by
night as well as by day with this light aS
it expels the darkness and fills the atmos-
phere with an almost sun-lke lustre. In
the lighting of cities by this new process,
the economy, as compared with the gas,
will be at least SO per cent. We are evil
denlly on the eve of as great II revolution
in lighting as when gas superseded oil
lamps and tallow candles.h u