The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-04-03
AProbable Change In the Method
of Lighting Cities aud Private
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We have from time to time made mem
tion OF the experiments with electric
light. These experiments are constantly
being made, and have now arrived at
such stage Of development as oindi.
cate beyond reasonable doubt that We
are on the eve Of q new method Of arti-
fcially lighting cities and private dwell.
liugs. In London It appears that the ad-
verse verdict rendered upon the use of the
electric candles on the London docks
was procured by the opposition to their
introduction made BY the interested gas
companies. 1tappearu however that 80
far from being failure itwas SO much
and so far a success that N. Jabl ochkotf
the Russian Engineer who has given the
subject 80 much attention, has been able
to secure capital enough to build exten-
siye works in Paris, extend its use TO large
public places, and materially improve its
adaptability to lighting houses now served
by gas. It is already in use in the immense
@Louyre store and the Hall Marengo.
The Figaro newspaper had two Of those
candles erected in front Of its Office some
time ago. This light enabled the con-
structors Of the Continental Hotel to work
night and day, and the burners quite re-
Gently attached to the front Of the Grand
Opera House have made the streets
around for hundreds Of yards as light as
day. This public exhibit Of its working
attracted new attention to its working
and brought out a letter on the subject
from Mr.. Edward King the Paris CORES.
pondendent Of the Boston Journal.
While for some purposes this light has
been in use for some years, there have
beeu difficulties in It's use which were
thought for time to be next to impossi.
BILE to overcome. On this point It is said:
ain every previous means for using the
light it has been necessary to have sep-
arate machine for producing each separ.
ate illumination. Jablochkotts inyen.
ton, on the contrary, provides for the
divisibility Of the current and light, go
that q large number Of candles may be
supplied with one magneto.electric ma.
chine, just as various gas-jets can besup-
piled throughouta house from one gas
machine. The light itaelf 10 furnished
BY what ia called a candle, which con.
sists Of two strips OF carbon, (coaD insu.
lated by certain composition, which
heats, melta, and volatizes in exact pro-
portion to the combustion Of the carbon,
and thus preserves the necessary insula-
ton at an eyenness which furnishes q
steady Light. Mr.. King says the price ot
one Of these candles, burning an hour
and half and giving light fully equal
TO 1870 gas.jets, is only 10 cents; this ID
the cost, OF course, after providing the
necessary machinery, which requires the
supply OF force to the dynamo.electric
generator equal 10 one-horse power for
every distinct group Of lights.
Between the illumination furnished by
the electric candles and gas there is no
comparison. The intense white glare Of
the former, makes the flames OF the gas
jets look muddy and yellow, when they
are placed side by aide.
It is said that the introduction of these
lights at the Grand Opera House in Paris
is not for exhibition or experiment, but
for permanent investment, and Mr.. King
says that 1.-THE city authorities propose to
extend the electric lights into all parts
of the city as rapidly as they can. Their
general use for street,lighting will make
night as light as'day, and increase the
business possibilities, pleasures, comfort,
aud safety oicity lie beyond all estimats''
Even at the present stage of the invention,
It's cost Is so low that gas used in the same
proportions, though not furnishing any
thing like the same amount Of light,
would coat four times as much.
Itis now claimed that candles OF all
sizes can be placed 10 any position wanted,
and that the light can be made to be as
easily handled and managed rs Ia the
present gas chandelier and jets. The
Parisians generally believe that the elec.
trio candles will come into general use
in their city;in which case that it will
cross the Atlantic and become an institu-
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