Milford chronicle., 1878-10-04
THE LATEST INvENTI on.
POWER, LIGHT AND HEAT sU- 'GED BY
ELECTRICITY IT'S Low. cog, STEAM
FOR POWER GENERATED BY SUNS
RAYS.

EbECTRlCIIY-I IT'S Low. COuI STEAM
FOR POWER GENERATED BY SUNS
RAYS.
Prof. Edison sharply defends tn pO,
sition taken by Prof Wallace that over
can be flashed by wire to any exteut that
it can be furnished, and in any gu antily
that may be demanded. His assertion
''that the power of Niagara Falls may be
transmitted by electricity so as 10 furn-
ish working power for all the manufac-
tories i'll the State of New York." is Sc
verely criticised but Edison says it can
be done, and, at some lerl ~, gives his
reasons forso believing. Flo also declares
that he can send cheap light and heat
over wire i'll the same way, that is, by
electricity. With fifteen or twenty dyn-
! amO-electric machines he says, Il can
light the entire lower part OF New York
city, using 500 horsepower engine. 1
propose to establish one of these light
centres in Nassau street, whence wires
can be run up town as far rs the Cooper
Institute, down to the Battery, and across
to both rivers. These wir!s must be in
sulated, and laid in the groulEd tic same
as gas pipes. / also propose TO ,ltilize
the gas burners and chandcll Is now in
use. In each house L eau pglce light
metre, whence these wiresl will pass
through the house, tapping small metal
lie contrivances that may be. placed over
each burner. Then houSekeepers may
turn Off their gas and send the metres
back to the companies whence they came.
Whenever it Is desired to light Jet, it
will only be necessary to tfhch little |
spring near it. No nlatchesflre required.
Again, the same wire tbsst., brings the |
light to you," Mr.. Edisti continued. |
''will also bring power anQ .heat. With |
the power you can run alD elevator, q !
sewing machine or any other mechanical
contrivance that requires a motor. and
by means of the heat you can cook your
food. To utilize tile heat, it will only be
necessary to have the ovens or stoves
arranged for its reception. This
can be done at triling cost The dyna-
machine, called the telema.
chon, and which has already been de-
may be run by water OF steam
power at distance. When used in n
large city the machine would of neces-
Sity be run by steam power. I have
the relative cost of the light
power and heat generated by the elec-
-rlcity transmitted to the telemachon to
De but Il fraction of the cost where OBJ
aimed i'll the ordinary way. BY a bat
cry or steam power it is forty.si times
cheaper, and by water power probably l
b per cent. cheaper. ~
1t has been computed that by Edison's !
process the same amount Of light that is
,iven by 1000 cubic feet of the carbu- j.,
eted hydrogen gas now used in New :,
.ork city, and for which from 50. so to So Y
S paid, may be obtai1ell, for from twelve y
D fifteen cents. Edison will soon give a =
ublic exhibition of his new invention. e, e.
Another inventor, Mr. Adams, is Der h
3cting plan by which steam may be s
ept up in boilers through the suns h
lys reflected by mirrors. At Bombay. II
here the experiment., wete made viii r.
2 gallons of water did, "'e foci of l6 Il
lrrors directed on er at 7:3O A. cl
., the experimente% As that hegot S,
pressure or 10 pou ct s a. NJ, and fil
70 pounds at 8;3L hen the safety el
live was opened. \ subsequently
piled 80 gallons of II solely by the n,
'ncentrated heat of e sun. Tie re- M
'cting surface used y Mr.. Adams is +,
Eles Oh mirrors OF 81 I9red glass formed I'll
Z a combination of fl & glasses. It is #
1t intended to drive 'chinery by solar 70
'at alone. The invt tor hopes to use n,
as an auxilliary to linary fuel, heat. W, W.
6, the ordinary boile s., The plan is, "a
at SO soon as the steam generated tW
solar heat in an OF N space outside m, ""
{, engine room shal have attained bn
5aNpressure, 1t shalNbe injected llto m1
ordinary boiler; an every pound of wi
am thus supplied "1y effect a saving inf
precisely the quautity of coal that tbt
uld have produced it. He calculates sw
It the use OF coal on fine day in nc,
liza can be discontinued from about oo' o,3'
o A. NJ. to 4;30 P. NJ, and that about sbC s(
e-quarter of the coal now consumed I1oi
stationary engines may thus be saved. no pr'-
the