Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1878-12-28
CONTENT AT MEMO PARK,


II was announced yesterday bv
g dispatch from London that Mr.. j.
Il. Russell haI filed on Tuesday OBJ
irstlouS 10 the grant Of y patent TO
Ell II tor his IHprOr ememIs on til"
Electric light. Tie ground Of the
objection Was that Mr. Edison was
net the true aud frs inventor OF the
liglt: and the London Hines SAID
that several rivals are In the fei"
who assert That they are before
Eit-on with his alleged invention
Yesterday q reporter Of tre World
ca. Ell upon u-ou to ak the mean-
inu If tlI- It>,ttrCI. t!s"u was i'll
his Oil - euZtg-i On some manuscript.
aud 10 amount OF calling or shaking
could ~Iuu~r tim until he had flush
ed. Then he looked up aud extend
Jug = very electricity d!~sco!ored
palm. exclaimed ,'iititJ!
"Wha' J. this" asked the reporter,
"abuut j. II. ~Iiussri. ana his objec-
ton to your Ea'ent
lie Iuaket puzzled foT q moment.
Then he said Il don't know Rus
sell OF al, thing about his objections.
l suppose he has taken some adyan-
t4ge OF soma technical flaw. The
English have 3 beautiful system OF
patent law, i.veutest, think, BY
King Cauute or gone other sncieut
ruler wIn understood the needs o.
our times
''Teeu YOU DONE anticipate any diff
hcui;Y IN obtaining She reward 81
your own experI'1eutS aud Improve
Ineuts independent OF what any other
persOD has done -
l., .,r.y-..1. - tfTl n-n.rfnu F.1iGnn
gave himself up to 8 theoretical de
monstration OF his work on the elec-
lric light.
- tel! you what it is said he :;
Eve got this thing down fine 40"
and I'm getting it down liner every
day. AT the beginning there were
two problems to be solved. One vas
the rracticgbilitv of the subdivision
of the electric light, the other was
its econOmic,l adaptation for house
hold and general purposes. Now,
I've got my lamp aud I've got my
subdivision. That - entirely settled.
1t was necessary to su5diviie the
current without any hitch aud I've
done II. Fun calculating at present.
on tue cost of the hight. Now, just
within a day or two I've found =
way TO Concentrate the light SO that
I've made All immense saving. And
this is entirely independent Of the
amount of current supplied. I've laid
over the whole deck on that"
Give me your calculations on the
light.' said the reporter.
"Mv eighty-horse power engine
will, give $50 lights. | Intended at
first to have them of titteem-c.ndie
power eacu, but now | can have each
one equal Il twenty candles without
extra cost. The engine VIII be ruu
mug every hour III the twenty-iour
but slowly When the lamp, are not
iighIet its an automatic cutoff
engine, you ku0w-and then wlei
Que lamp after another IL Lighted, tns
Old engine GOES faster aud faster
until, buzz. she's of At her highes'
rate of speed. Aud mark you, ther,
ia To be- no waste OF my current, FOL
the engine l. 81 arranged that II vii
supply just tue amount OF Curren.
called tor by each lamp, AMI wheL
all The lights are turned out the cur
rent stops of itself. On, its all piall
enough aud eImpie enough. TheI
each one Of these lights Is going T.
cost 81 80 a year, and a gas uurne
giving about the same itgmt cost 81,
year. T,at's what l'm working %
now-the economy of the thing /; 70
II the electric light i>n't cheap its Q
no value
Have You perfected any device 70
measuring the amOuu of siectriclt,
consumed by each burner 2"
"On, yc-; I've got that all fixed
I've got a meter that teil- how InuC
current IS used up Just as a ga>omete
tells how mach gas Is consumed. Blu
Pm not going to be III a hurry sbuu
this thing. I'm gong 10 get NY sye
ten perfect, and then the gas peopl
vii. please take a back seat"
just now, 'suggcsicd The reporteI
"you are louugIng here DOING nutl
ing. II you don't want to FORK 1
the light, why don't you put a han
to some other OF your incomplete
inventions ("
MY business IL thinkiug,'' sal
Edison land l'm thiukiug now ST.
I'm business. 1t takes Il great de-
of Inouey 10 run this shop, and [ mu,
devote myself TO those things tn;
promise To pay iii the neal tutur
So you see there are many thin.
that are TO = certain extent specui
ton mat must drop Tor the tin
being"
Whats become of the megaphoi
the wonderful instrument for de
people 2"
I've goc a man working On tn
now. I've got TO use eiectricit
There's no other way of doing AL
thing with 1t. I'll have the esr-tru,
pet connected with a small electric
machine that the hearer holds in
lap. The megaphone is u good THU
for there's an awful demand for ii
"And the aerophone and the ph
nometor and the other things begi
ming or ending with phone Z"
"Ail dropped for the prese
through necessity
"Have you yet received your Gre
of the Legion OF Houur?'
~. Commissioner McCormi
Will brlng that over with him"