The daily gazette., 1878-10-22
Edison. Creates. Inv,r,,..

Professor Morton, in lecture in New
ork on Thursday last, while ADMITTING
the availability of the electric light for
sPeciai purposes, expressed the Opinion
that IL could not come into general use
ana that It's indivisibility was an incurable
defect. The Presidents of the gas asso-
ciatlons present were greatly comfortnd
with so positive a declaration from so
eminent scientist. Prof. Morton NAV
| however, as other scientific men. deceiye
himself. DIR. Lardner, il will be rememb-
cred, predicted, in labored article in an
English quarterly, that transatlantic
steam navigation was impossible. This
he proved by convincing array of reas-
ohing and facts. On a visit of a Herald
reporter to Edison's laboratory, the same
day, one of his workmen, referring to the
opinion OF scientists that it was impos-
sible to divide the electric light. said in
reply: ''''N ~
"And so they said the quadruplex tele-
graph was impossible. Why, when Mr..
Edison announced that he had succeeded
IN sending four messages on the wire at
the same time in opposite directions.
scientific men laughed outright and call,
ed him madman. Again, when he said
that he could talk through telegraph
wire, and In proof of the same showed
MS telephone, they would not believe il
until they tried 1t over and over again. and
found 1t as he said and again, when he
said he would make it reproduce the hu-
man voice they once more called him
crazy. But, notwithstanding all they
said the phonograph, the telephone and
the quadruplex are to-day admitted facts,
Let them say what they please. We.
who know what Mr.. Edison is doing. are
satisfied that he has succeeded.n
| subsequently meeting Edison at the
depot, the reporter asked him how he
was progressing with the practical divis-
ion OF the electric light. sEverytbinp
Is going along all right" answered the
inventor.
"Have you heard what scientific men
say about 1t ?'' asked the reporter.
"What do they say ?" inquired the in
ventor.
"That it is impossible"
| "Well, we will see," was Mr.. Edison's
smiling rejoinder, as he prepared to
90.
"They say that the electric light will
not bear subdivision except at an enor-
nous sacrifice of illuminating power
continued the writer.
"There is no sacrifice of power in this
discovery" answered the inventor
'Those who are denouncing it as impos-
sible are predicating on what they have
not seen and do not understand. The
invention is new departure. believe
that have succeeded beyond all doubt.
In little while all who doubt it NAV see
for themselves. The assertions that are
made in opposition are based on systems
that have been tried and found defective.
In little while l will light up all the
houses in Menlo Park, and then the
scientific men can, if they desire, come
and see. AT present, however, can say
no more than that we are hard at work
on 1t in the laboratory and mean to lose
no time"
There is but little doubt that Edison
has succeeded in this, the most important
of his inventions. 1t has been submitted
to an association of capitalists, who are
so well satisfied of its practicability that
on Thursday last they filed a certificate
OF incorporation in the New York County
Clerks Office ''tor the production of light,
heat and power by means of electricity .
with capital of $500, ,000.-Press.