The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-11-14
WHAT EDISON Is ABOUT.
The Electric Light an Accomplished Fact
only Waiting for the European Pat.
fents-Faets Aboutits Costs and Manage
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The Electric Light an Accomplished Fact
only Waiting for the European Pat.
sents-Raets Aboutits Costs and Manage
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Ohm pohdsncS Il DE n, y. Evening Pest.
W. NJ PIrLApELptA, Nov. II.
In conversation with an eminent scien:
tiic gentleman in this city, who lis an.
intimate personal friend Of the inventor
Edison, ! heard a number Of interesting
facts bearing on the future OF the much
discussed electric Light. My informant,
who has Just returned from a visit to Men
10 Park, assured me thatthe light was en-.
tirely ready for introduction into general
use, and that the company were simply
waiting for the European patents, which
the English solicitors have Just telegraph
ed them will not be ready under twenty
DAYS. The apparatus is standing complete
I'M Edison's workshop, and ! am assured
gives a soft, beautiful light OF the same
strength as gas. The question OF relative
expense Is OF course yet somewhat a spec
nlative one, but the highest estimate
makes the cost one.half that OF gas.
now IT WILL APrEcr GAS COMPANIES.
In answer to my inquiry how this revo-
luton would affect gas stocks, my inform
ant thought that while gas must ultimate
~ go out OF use, the enormous existing
plant Of gus and the great interests involv-
cd would for q long time contest the claims
OF the now light TO popular favor. He
thought the gas plant could not be used to
any considerable extent in distributing the
electric light, but that this work must BIO
practically doned de moro, as II would cost as
much 10 adapt the gas pipes and jets to
electricity as to supply new apparatus;
Edison's let, he says, Is very neat and oil
the contrivances very simple. Even at the
same cost, or greater, the electric light
will DO preferable. In Its use there will
be a less expensive plant, and there will
be an absence OF heat and danger, while
the running expenses will be insignificant
THE Inventor AT HOME.
As the trains on the Pennsylvania Rail
road speed to and fro between Philadel'
phia and New York no station and nc
beauty OF nature calls for such general at,
tention as the few humdrum houses and
the bleak scenery OF Menio Park. Passen;
gers eye the station with almost Dated
breath as the new scientific shrine. In
this village, which Edison has rendered SO
famous, the wizard" lives and works, as
artfully protected as may be from the in;
trusivc curiosity OF wonder-loving and
hero.worshipping world. Some OF the
precautions adopted arc indicative in their
ingenuity and originality Of the nan Tel
egraph wires connect his shop with the
station, and the arrival OF q stranger, es,
pecially ifhe bear the family likeness oil
1.-The purvcyor Of news, is heralded by the
Ilynx-eyed station patrol. Thus forewarn.
cd and forearmed the inventor has other
defences yet 10 shield him from thedread'
cd interviewer Bolts, bars, forbidding
legends and polite assistants and servants
stand like lions before the House Beauti'
full in the "Pilgrim's Progress" But once
reached, the inventor Is found the mosl
genial and unaffected OF men. His health
Is now fully restored, and he is as hard al
work as ever. The attempt to anticipate
his light by q rival company does not rutile
himin the least, as he is confident OF the
superiority OF his invention, and, more
: over, the two companies will occupy rath'
or different fields,
Judged, then, from these remarks OF z
gentleman eminently qualified to speak
On the subject by his professional know
4 ledge ofthe subjects involved and his per
sonal intimacy With Edison, that the cleo
trio light us nm interior illumination, filling
the place OF oil and gas, is a sure fact In
the near future. My informant secuted
the idea that Edison had been used by
spectators to affect the gas stock market
He believed these stocks would temporari
ly recover from the present panic, bu'
there was no question as to the genuine
ness and the entire success OF the new
light.