Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-10-23
THE ELECTRIC LIGHT.
Edison DESERTS 4Dai1e that He Has DIS
COVERED Ho,u to Practically Diride the
Electric LiOItt.

Edison asserts dydi3l that He Has DIS
covered Ho,U to Practically Diride the
Electric LiOht.
New York Herald.
The fierce denunciations of the gas COM
panies at the latest discovery of Mr.. Edison,
have produced no effect on the serenity of
the Menlo Park laboratory. When Edison
was told that eminent scientists and promi-
nent gas company officials pronounced his
alleged discovery concerning the electric
light sham, aud offered to prove by figures
and facts that division of the electric light to
any practical extent was impossible. he
smiled imperturbably and gave orders that a
new eighty horse power engine be at once
placed in operation and that more wurkmen
be added to the number already engaged in
manufacturing the apparatus.
A Herald reporter yesterday visited the
laboratory to learn the progress of the in
vention. MI. Edison had gone to New
York, and was not expected back until
night. His numerous workmen, however,
were busily engaged at their different plees.
On the door leading to the laboratory the
reporter noticed large placard announcing
that there was positively no admittance. It
being such striking departure from the
usual freedom hitherto accorded all who Wis
tied the place, he asked an assistant the
cause of the prohibition. "It's on
account of the electric ight,'' said
the young man. s'Since it became known
that Mr.. Edison had made his discovery, the
laboratory has been thronged at nearly all
hours of the Gay with visitors anxious to see
it. We were obliged to close the doors be-
cause the foreign patents have not yet been
heard from. In g couple of weeks, however,
perhaps less, all will be free again, and then
the skeptics may see for themselves; but I'M
til then nobody will be allowed to see it,
"But scientific men say that the thing is
impossible" observed the reporter.
''And so they said the quadruplex telegraph
was impossible answered the assistant.
"Why, when Mr.. Edison announced
that he had succeeded in sending
four messages on one wire at the
same time in opposite directions, scientific
men laughed outright and called him mad
man. Again, when he said that he could
talk through a telegraph wire, and in proof
of the same showed his telephone, they
would not believe it until they tried it over
and over again, and found it as he said; and
again, when he said he would make it repro
duce the human voice, they once more called
said, the photograph, the telephone and the
them say what they please continued the
assistant, swe, who know what Mr.. Edison is
doing, are satisfied that he has succeeded -
At late hour the professor returned from
New York. The reporter met him at the de-
pot and asked him how he was progressing
with the practical division of the electric
light. Everything is going along all right y
answered the inventor.
"Have you heard what scientific men say
about it?' asked the reporter.
"What do they say?" inquired the in
ventor.
''That it is impossible
| "Well, we will see," was MIR. Edison's
smiling rejoinder, as he prepared to go.
'sThey say that the electric light will moi
bear subdivision except at an enormous sac
riice Of Illuminating power" continued the
writer.
"There is no sacifce Of power in this dis
covery,' answered the inventor. 'sThost
who are denouncing it as impossible art
1 predicating on what they have not seen anc
/ do not understand. The invention is a new
departure. I believe that I have succeeded
beyond all doubt. In little while all WIZ
doubt it may see for themselves. The as
sertions that are made in opposition ar
based on systems that have been tried ant
found defective. In little while will ligh
up all the houses in Menlo park, and the,
| scientific men can, if they desire, come an,
see. At present, however, I can say no nor
than that we are hard at work on it in tn
laboratory and mean to lose no time" Bid
ding the reporter good night the inyento
then hurried to his laboratory.
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