The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-10-25
H9NEw ELECTRIC LIGHT

A London correspondent, writing under
ate date. says that the new electric ligh
is attracting as much attention as anythin
can attract "out OF the season" In tn
British metropolis This extraordinar
Light is now being introduced in the mos
public of places, and it is impossible I
doubt, says the correspondent, when on
secs the effect Of these lights, that the days
or, If you prefer, the nights of gas are mum
bcred. Questions of comparative expensl
and of the best means of tempering ant
adjusting the new radiance to the needs o
street life and the capacity Of the humaI
eye arc still, of course, to be considered
But tho central dominant fact cannot b,
denied that in comparison with the electri,
light, ms it is now nightly exhibited at tn,
Gaicty works, the gas-lamp Of 1873 stand.
whore the whale-oil lamp Of 1928 stood ir
comparison with the gas-lamp Of that time
1t is easy to read ordinary manuscript al
night anywhere within 800 feet Of one 81
these lights, and on going upstairs into q
chamber over q shop, situated as far from
the last of the Gaicty electric lamps going
westward as the Post Office is from tn,
World office in New York, You can read the
pages Of q duodecimo printed volume as
comfortably as by the light of the sun al
dawn. This comparison comes naturally tc
the mind, because the quality of this light
singularly resembles that of the sun in the
early morning. The street lighted by II
looks like q street seen at dnybreak, and II
is easy to understand how the night birds
of Paris, for example. have found 1t impos
sible to ply their trades in the unnatural
day it has created for them wherever it has
been used in that city. Obviously it is des.
tined to be a sort of police torpedo in all
great cities, changing all the conditions OF
night-life, and acting upon them who work
in darkness and love it, as the opening Of
highways through n wild country acts upon
n savage people. OF its immediate avail.
ability ut sea there can be no sort of question.
1t is The inevitable light of the future light.
house all over the world. The splendors Of
Cape Grisnez and the Wolf Rock, which
cow dazzle and delight the voyager as he
onters and trayerses the English Channel,
must ut an early day become familiar in all
quarters Of the world. 1 suppose you know
that the most magnificent light ever YET
ordered for such q purpose has been direct
ed to be prepared for the new lighthouse
which England is now constructing to re
place the famous Eddystone. The contracts
for building this new lighthouse wers
signed fortnight ago, and the work is now
under way. The new tower will be lac
feet in height, and will be erected on 0
ledge Of rocks distant some seven miles
from the present light. 1t will be construct
cd wholly of granite and iron. The room
will be MS superb as those of the old palace
of the Caesars, in which the suspicious mas.
tiers of the world could sec on every side
reflected in the polished marble of the WALL
the moving shapes of all who entered them
No wood ut all will be used, but the whole
chamber will be finished in highly polished
Scottish GRANTEES. The existing tower.
though condemned by the engineers as Ger
tain at some not very distant day to fal
and be engulfed, will not be pulled down
1t will be filed in with brick and converted
thus into a huge pillar which will serve n
n landmark by day to mariners, and which
will be dedicated as n kline of monument t.
the great architect, Smeaton, who frs
solved the problem which cost the over
confident Winstanley his life. All this how
ever, is of course by the way. My presen,
object is to recognize in the first place the
unquestionable fact that for certain pur
poses the new electric light has at last be
some an accomplished result beyond criti-
,ism, and in the second place the equally
anquestionable fact that for certain other
its availability still remains to be
Now that Paris has secured
Joblockoff and that Louton is contending
with him, it may be expected that those
who are interested in the one or the other
IF these illuminators of the world will lose
40 time in attempting to capture the
market for their respective
inventions. What then can the electric
light actually be used for now with profit
advantage elsewhere than in light
Undoubtedly it will be most val
liable on board ships, since it will not only
enable them to be seen from a great dis
lance, but will also enable sailors to see
from a great distance every obstacle to
navigation when they are scanning the
outlines of a coast to be approached or to
De avoided. 1t will also furnish the most
penetrating light for signalling, and last,
lot least, it will make it possible for ship
masters to continue the work of charging
d~ischarging passengers or cargo at any
port by night with us much ease and de-
patch as by day.
Only the other day, on the North Atlantic,
/ large steamer, the Faraday, carrying an
electric light, came in a dense fog into such
.lose proximity to an emigrant vessel that
The latter was all but run down. The cleo
;ric light enabled the steamer to make the
yessel out in time to avoid n collision. But
such was the density of the fog that it
would have been impossible to perceive the
migrant ship with any less powerful light
han the electric, and a fearful calamity
would have been the inevitable result.
For purposes of war the power of the
electric light has already made II lndispen-
able to ships and fortresses. 1t so illum-
mates at night the sea or the country around
l fort as to reveal at great distances an adj
yancing torpedo-boat or an attacking col
INN of the enemy's forces.
As the space it occupies is, considering
The result produced, infinitely smaller than
that required for any other source of light
doing equal work as it is fed by thee cleo
.ric current. which maintains its life through
flexible leading wires which can be rapidly
set or removed in almost every locality,
while gas requires cumbersome tubes or
.igid pipes, it is clear that the new light
will be especially useful wherever q temper
ary or q shifting illumination is needed. 1t
has already been put to use in lighting en-
cheering works, and, as l have now shown,
Tor the erection of buildings. 1t will be use
full, too. in the construction of bridges. As
It can be surrounded by n perfectly closed
globe or receptacle of glass it is not exposed
to the disturbing influence of wind and
weather, and an even and continuous Light
in the open air can be produced only through
its agency.
OF oil lamps in practical use the electric
lamp, as / have said, most resembles in its
optical qualities the solar ray. 1t is possible
to distinguish by its light the most delicate
shades OF different %colors, as it is not posi-
BILE to do by gas or candle light. This quail
tty ut once suggests its use for manufactures
were a choice of colors has to be effected in
the process Of the work, rs for instance in
dyers' establishments and in cotton-spin-
ming works. Its great intensity and steadi.
ness will make it generally useful in all
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