The daily gazette., 1878-11-05
SAWYER'S ELECTRIC LAMP.
AN INVENTOR CLAIMING THAT HE HAS
SOLVED THE PROBLEM THAT HAS
PUZZLED so MANY,

| pNH'Eb lhE fROBLEM THAT HA-
| PUZZLED so MANY.
An organization under the laws of the
state OF New York, composed of Albion
| +. Man, William E. Sawyer, Hugh Nc.
| Cuilough, Lawrence Myers, ,J Acob Hayes
James kernochan, and William III
| Hayes, bas been formed, to be- known by
the corporate name of the Electro-Dyna-
mic Light Company, and the certificate
required was filed in the Clerks office OF
| the County of New York on July 8, 1873,
lts nominal capital is $4,000, and the
scrip, S290,000. The objects of the com
pany are set forth to be the production
or light and power by means of electri-
city; the lighting of streets. buildings,
aud other places, producing, conducting,
aud distributing electrical currents for
hghting and other purposes, and the
manufacture and sale of all machinery
necessary for and adapted to accomplish b
the purposes named.
The patent under which this company
proposes TO carry on its business is on
the discovery or invention of w. E. Saw
yer, known as the Sawyer Man electric
lamp, device that they assert was pa
tented year ago.
William E. Sawyer, the inventor was
recently the chief electrician of the Wes-
tern Uuion Telegraph Company, and it
he made he discovery, resigning his
place that he might develop it and i'll
tro luce IL to the word.
The confidence of the corporators in
the Sawyer-Man system, after witnessi 10
1t in operation for number of DAYS, is so
great that it is averred they have paid
the inventor large sum, in addition, for
n controlling interest in his reserved Eu-
ropean territory, and that the eX-Se ere
N s.f hn will IL.
steamship to place the invention before
the European public. Many of those in
terested in the new enterprise We're
holders of the city gas stocks and have
been quietly unloading, and it is asserted
that an offer has been made to the COM
pany by entirely responsible persons of
100000 over and above the royalty, for
the right of operating and selling the in
vention in one the largest States of the
Cnion.
1t is claimed that the new light, when
in practical use, will be wholly free from
many objections attending the use of
coal gas, hike smoke, SCOT, deterioration
of the atmosphere in houses, and danger
from asphyxia. AS 1t is impossl BILE to
ignite anything by means of this electric
light, it is claimed that the Sawyer sys-
TEN, when in use, will materially reduce
insurance rates.
Mr.. Sawyer and those interested with
him feel confident that he has completely
solved the problem of electric light in all
its details. There remain few merely
mechanical obstacles to be overcome,
that he says are of easy solution, in order
to adapt the light to the every day uses
of life. They are in rapid process of ac-
complishment, and the iuveator and his
friends assert that within the next two
weeks lights will be arranged in a large
building where the whole system can be
shown and explained to the pubic.
The jet, or lamp, as Mr.. Sawyer calls
it, he says costs less than 81 TO manufac-
ture. 1t is Theoretically closed, and as
no oxygen can be- admitted, there can be
no ombustion, and consequently no
burning out of the carbon points. The
lamp consists of two sets of conductors,
supporting diaphragm, or plate. An
upright bar on this diaphragm supports
another bar running transversely from
its top. From this transverse bar depends
a carbon pencil, about one-siXth of an
inch in thickness, which is the light-giv-
ing substance. Underneath the pencil.
but not touching it, is piece of metal
called the anvil, which also rests on the
diaphragm. The whole apparatus is
enclosed in a glass case, secured to a
stand. The entire lamp is "a inches
high and p inches in diameter.
At an exhibition of the invention on
Saturday, after the engine that produces
electricity was started, a small key turned
on the light. The carbon points within
the lamp became first of a red heat, and
then grew perfectly white, resembling
the intensity of the sun at MONDAY, and
producing the same effect as it upon the
eyes. This intensity, however, was
easily modified to any required degree,
and the light was as uniform, steady,
and under as perfect control as gas
lipht