The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-10-09

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A GLORIOUS POSSIBILITY.
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New York World.l
Mr.. Edison was visited at his workshop in
Menlo Park yesterday oy a World reporter,
and asked what progress he was making in
the application of Mr.. Wallace's telemachon
an apparatus for transmitting power over
conductor by electricity-and in his prop
osition to subdivide the electric light With
regard to the telemachon Mr.. Edison said:
There is a brook, or spring, few hun
dred feet over there (pointiDg In the direc-
tion) and it has got at least twenty horse
power that is all wasted. l want to use that
power, and can't take my shop over there.
Consequently, must bring the spring here
Pm going to put in a turbine wheel, attach
that to m schine by belt and have that
machine connected by wire with one in the
shop. Then I'll get my power Tor MOTH
ing ~, uo,,
get?'
about eighty per cent. But suppose
only get five of the twenty horse power; that
will be all want and it will do my WORK
for nothing"
"How far can you transmit power in that
way?"
in a mile You couldn't use 1t for long
distance. statement of my opinion on
this subject has been published, but that was
all mixed up. Professor Wallace transmit
ted power from one machine TO another in
his shop, and Pm going to transmit power
from a water course, few hundred feet
away, to an engine. It's so much horse
| power, and it doesn't make any difference
| what Is the source OF that power"
Does Mr.. Wallace use his machine prac-
tIcally?'
mo; he only exhibitsit. But it works all
right"
7.Do you really take stock in Professor
| Wallace's machineP
"Oh, little. think can make it work. "
"The telemachon, then, is to some extent
q thing of the future. What are you actively
working onp'
THE electric light / have solved the
problem as to the subdivision of the light.
| Most of the machines now in use give at
most three or four lights from one magnetic
| electric machine. Mr.. Wallace has one that
gives eight lights, and is sufficient to illumi
nate the factory where 800 hands are en-
ployed. But those machines are limited as
to the number of lights they give, and each
extra candle that can be used Impairs the
others Now, the point was, how can one
machine be made to give an infinite number
of lights-not dazzling white, little brighter
| than gas and much cheaper--and that could
| be distributed among houses and stores and
in streets? You can't use the ordinary cleo
trio light for any purpose excepting the
| lighting of large building. 1t is too bright
and its area of illumination of course de-
creases with the square of the distance. IL
| you have a hundred lights not so brilliant
and distributed over a large area, you get
more illumination. Or these hundred lights
NAV be in different buildings and yet al
coma from one machine. Now, that was the
problem | solved. More than that, I've made
the thing work practically. Ia show II 70
you, but don't want any body 70 see 1t un
til get all my patents out"
What part of the apparatus constitutes
the discovery"
'sThe burner You have an incandescence
not flame, something white-hot that give:
the light Although it's white heat 1t doesn'
hurt the eyes 1t is simply less intense than
the brilliant light of the electric candles now
in use. Surprising company is formed and
different persons subscribe for the light
They ali get 1t the same, the temperature a.
which the light is given forth being limited
But below that point the light can be regu
lated at any degree by turning cock, anC
the light is extinguished in the same way
The cock operates by breaking the electric
current"
sis this practicable?"
i've maze III WOrk. IL Will ue CbSdP. L
l put in one burner too many have onl!
to put on more power"
How do you generate the electricity TO
the light?"
"By Wallace's machine. It's the best
could find. shall devise a generator of m.
own"
Mr.. Edison, twill be seen, does not wish .
, stand as authority for the suggested transmits
sion of the power generated at the falls OF M
| agara to New York. There are some dlthcul
ties in the way of that achievement. On
of them according to Mr.. Hochhausen, 4
the firm of Armour & Hochhausen, electric
ians, of Nos aud Howard street, is tina
it would require more copper to construc
r the conducting line from the falls to thi
, CITY than the whole of the lake Superior n
. gion could supply-in other words, more tina
r one hundred million pounds. The none
! spent for the copper would supply ever
o manufacturer with steam power 10 eternlt
8 free of cost.
b Mr.. II. s. ManIm, the well known ele
v trician and mechanical engineer, who:
electric lamps are in use in the Equitab
a building. was asked for his idea on the SUI
n iect and said: Yes, it is possible, but
2 would cost money. The copper conduct
j would not be an insurmountable obstacl
, 1t would cost about $50 foot, or, taking u
n distance as 400 miles, not more than Sl2t
d 100000 Then there would be the necessal
o machinery at Niagara falls, and | suppose,
e the conductor was built, money would
e found to construct that"