The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1878-05-24
ELECTRIC LIGHT n "a PARIS

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The latest wonders of the gay capital y
is the Introduction Of the electric light
Not moment was lost By tbs. Republican
authorities, after they had seen the, clever
invention Of M. JabIochkoff, in adapting it
for city purposes. Under the Empire
opinion was not SO easily gained in favor
of'a revolution in any thing, a method of
lighting streets and shops which was like
ly to drive gas out of the market would
have had no chance in those days. But
now telephones, phonographs, pneumatic
dispatch and electric light are freely wel-
coined. The result is that on Saturday even
ing last the Place de L Opera was the most
magnificent spot in the world at that mo-
ment, the intense white glow from the elec-
trio burners directly in front of the steps
leading up to the operas entrance and scat
tered at intervals across the grand boule-
ward to the corner of the new avenue lead
ing to the Come6ie Francaise, made the
spaces for hundreds of yards round about as
light as day. One of the electric candles
seems to give as much light as one hundred
gas jets. Gas looks yellow, muddy and
petty beside this grand fire, which defies
darkness. For city lighted by the new
process all the terrors of midnight would
vanish. Burglars would find their oc-
cupation gone. The assassin would have to
| sell his stiletto. Vice of all kinds would
either stink away, Or disgusted at the
small rewards which it would obtain when
it could no longer walk in darkness, would
endeavor to reform. -
The illumination of the Place de + Opera
has now passed beyond experiment. 1t
will be kept up steadily, and the authori-
ties will introduce the electric light in all
| parts of the city as rapidly as they can.
| And now few words about it's employ
ment by private persons and concerning its
mechanism, cost, etc. If any American
man doesn't know what the Louvre" is,
| let him ask his wife: 1t is a colossal es7.
tablishment like the Bon Marche. a
kind Of. magnified Stewards, where one
can buy every thing from pair of Swedish
kid gloves up to a parlor set Of furniture
covered with Aubusson tapestry.
The gas bills in such place are natural
ly tremendous, and gas is hardly the pro
per thing for lighting up beautiful stuffs.
and showing their most delicate colors.
The electric light has been tried in France
before. but the difficulty was with tile APP
par atus, which was too complicated to be
popular. Various mechanis1ns known as
"Regulators, had been invented, and, at
much cost, produced light now and then
shown only as a ccuriosity. But N.
Jablochkoff showed that with the invention
of magnetic electric machines revolution
had been inaugurated id the electric light
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The Jablochkoff apparatus claims two
great 'advantages-the suppression Of the
expensive regulators employed heretofore
and divisibility of-hght produced by sin
gle current. The regulators each demand
special current But with NJ. Jabloch-
koff's invention many rooms in the same
briiding can be Illuminated separately by
means of single machine. As to the
price, it is claimed that even in the most
unfavorable cases the price of lighting by
electricity is at such low mark that gas
used in the same proportions, but Of course
utterly incapable Of producing the same re-
suits, would cost four times as mucl:.
The electric candles used By Jablochkoff is
formed Of two cylindrical strips Of. coal, /
paced one beside the other and separated
by a peculiar isolating matter. The lower
extremities of the strips of coal are set in
two brass tubes, and these in turn are fas-
tened into a chandelier bracket. The
stripes are bound SO that they cannot fall
apart. When the current is passed in the
voltaic arch springs into life between the
two extremities of the coal strips. which
burn little by lutte by contact with the air.
The isolating matter heats, melts, partly
yolatilizes, and makes the. space between
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the Goals good conducter-far better
than it is in the ordinary System of light
ing with the regulator. The candle should
be protected By an opaliae globe as it is /
in most of the places whore it is in use in
Paris, The price Of one of these candles,
burning an hour and a hall, and giving a
light fully equal to 1S0 gas-jets, is fifteen
cents. All sizes Of candles can be furnish
ed, and they can be PLACED in almost every j
conceivable position. One horsepower Of
an ordinary s.eam-engine is required for
each separate electric light, or group of
lights; that is, a force equivalent to that
must be supplied to the dyname-electric
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