The New York herald., 1878-11-25
AN ELECTRICIANS DREAM.

TIES OF RECENT INVENTIONS.
wAsHISGroN Nov. 90. lsls.
Al complete success in illuminating by the electric
light day by day approaching nearer, and as every
thing OF interest this all absorbing topic IS looked
for with the greatest anxiety by the rubiic, TOOK
advantage of a recent opportunity to speak with Mr.
j. b. Fuller the electrician. Of the probable effect OF
recent discoveries upon vested interests and the eco
nonic advantages 10 society generally.
EPrECr or THE GAS COMPANIES.
With regard TO the effect Of general illumination
upon gas companies Mr.. Fuller differs materially
from the expressed opinion Of many other electri
clans with whom have conversed.
s.Ihey will Of course receive severe check"
said he (which. probably they Justly deserve, and
which may and will for time at least, greatly re-
duce the value of their stock; but in the end. and
that at not very remote period, there is no
good and valid why they may not fully
recover their temporary oss and instead of dccreas
ing. increase their business TO enormous extent
and there are now inventors in Washington turning
their attention this subject with view OF carry
ing out the following suggestions
There Ia nothing more inevitable than that gas
Tor illuminating purposes will soon be reduced
less than oneeighth Of the present production and
that the electric fluid, with all its purity and health
funess will be substituted for it, Now let the gas
companies OF the United States agree at once TO offer
rewards say. of $4,000 $4,000 and $4,000 for the
arst second and third best inventions i'll gas stoves
IN which all the products of combustion are carried
off by the chimney and the best adapted TO all the
the modern house from the parlor to the kitchen
Then let the builders offer similar rewards prizes
for the best models OF houses adapted to the
cal use Of gas fuel and the thousands and thousands
of American inventors, with their heads brimming
full of BRAIN only waiting for proper Inducements,
will soon furnish all that is required in this direc
ton. Then we shall 4 era i'll domestic in
dustry.
BAD FOR ANTHRACITE COMBINATIONS.
''The almost boundless fields Of bituminous coal.
which for countless ages have lain undistu-bel will
then open and pour forth their contents to all the
large cities Of the Union. The gas that be pro-
duced from this coal, while UNFIT for illumination,
has tremendous heating qualities, has been fire.
quently proven and is much less costly than gas
at present generated. This remark incidentally,
will course put quietus upon the coal rnonopoes
of Pennsylvania
There will be then more setting up and taking
down of stoves, and the inevitable and consequent
family jars there will be necessity for mg-
gng mp coal in coal hods, no emptying ash barrels.
No industry would suffer. but perhaps Dixons stove
polish, and even that wonld be wanted in making
electric carbons When the electric light superscdes
yas then the manufacture of copper would be
greatly increased for the construction Of machines
and conductors and the value of copper shares would
undoubtedly go up. Zach house may also have
small electric motor for running sewing aahnes
and machines for other light work, there being a
large number already patented, but useless when
BY expensive battery currents. Those who expect TO
work heavy machinery at a distance from the gene
-ator will certainly be disappointed. The may
said in regard to heating buildings by electricity
10 carry ont these views material alterations would
required in the present gas plant such pipes,
&c; the manufacture would be simphed inasmiIch
some of the component parts OF coal gas, which
produce the most heat cannot be burned openly in
account Of their unhealthiness, but in such
stove as suggested above it would be much safer to
burn than coal in ordinary stoves
OLD INVENTIONS MADE VALUABLE.
There curious fact IN relation to the inven-
ton Of electric lights and one which very few people
would ever think of unless their attention called
to IL specifically alude to the fact that the intro
duction of magneto-electric machines has rendered
very valuable many old Inventions which, with bat
teries, useless, bnt now, with slight modifca-
TONS they well adapted to the best modern eler
tric machines The attention OF inventors has been
recently occupied. and is in fact being occupied
in devising means for subdividing the current OF
powerful machines that large number Of lights
each of the power of q single gas burner may be pro-
duccc in single circuit, each independent of the
nrnr anu no yery nssence to
and also in producing meter by which the time OF
burning and quantity burned may be registered.
Several inventors claim to have accomplished all
these objects, notably Mr.. Edison am informed"
SUBDIVISION OF THE LIGHT.
rnasmuch Mr.. Fuller intimated to that he
had patents pending for the accomplishment OF all
these objects obtained hs permission to question
the examiner in the Patent Once his system OF
subdivision Of the light. The examiner assured me
that by this system the current could be divided into
local circuits. which the luminous points
placed and that each and all absolutely inde-
pendent OF each other. The luminous points the
electric lights may be Of carbon porcelain kaolin
platinum, all of which were tried twenty-five
years ago. but failed account of the battery
rents then employed.
In regard TO the utilization the present gas fix
lures they viii undoubtedly all be used in the new
lights also the street lamp posts but the street
mains will probably be dsarded, for. as above
stated they would be required for gas fuel and even
il they were not the gas would soon destroy the in
sulation.
n hv NJ
Fuller stated that ne had never kept his inv entons
secret some four previous patents dated October
the machine shop where they wers made and
worked, il being general machine shop. 1t is not
necessary to 90 into details but in few weeks hi.
systems under his patent nov hoped to Issue by
the Patent Once will be in operation in of the
most pnblic locations in New York city. where
themselves Of the merits OF his plans from actual
observation. There is one matter in regard to
Mr.. Edison that Mr. Fuller desired me to state. and
nat u.s. that he considered him Edson) the fer
lille inventor in the world: has ever sp-
preached him and that, while knowing nothing OF
ais late inventions the electric light, he knows
enough OF ths man and his former nvcn tons feel
,onident that in time. his most sanguine expecta-
aons win be fully realized. and that IL he had given
me subject of electric light one-haf the attention no
sad given to telegraphy he would have been far
hcad OF all his competitors in this grand and noble
sAe.
COLOR or THE LIGHT
Almost any color tint may be obtained by the elec-
ric light by combining with the c2rbons the proper
chemicals during the manufacture by sat,ration
MterwarI. lhe natural violet rays. whirn
what peufralizcd by the addition of
few grains in each carbon Of chloride OF sodium,
producing yellow tint like the sunlight. MagDes1
produces very white light and is well adapted to
photography mixture OF arsenic. on the contrary,
produces light almost devoid OF chemical effect.
Various protosats and sulphaes Of the metals may
be combined as to produce almost any desired
color
orHKE INVENTIONS.
Mr.. Sawyer, Of New York, has patented Q sutdiyi-
Won Of the electric current wherein he places the
lights in branch circuits. running from the
Tive I'm he i've npHu fxr
arranged, which the machine will support. may be
used and governed by switches He also has a lamp
patented similar TO kosos and has secured twenty
nve claims in his patent. 1t ls said 10 give reliable
aud steady Light. ~ is la sealed glass tuoc, sup
picd with nitrogen gas arc all lamps OF this class
that have seen.
Mr.. Bash, Of Cleveland, Ohio. has made some re-
cent improvements in carbon pont and point lamps,
by Which he has overcome previous dfficul-
ties that he is able TO burn several such lamps in