The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1878-12-19

OA aG ner nISnesC rate Oh speed. Anu,
mark you, there is to be no waste of
my current, for the engine is so srr
ranged that it will supply just tho
amount of current called for by each
lamp, and when all the lights are turn
ed out the current stops of itself. Ob,
it's all plain enough, and simple en-
ough. Then each one of these lights
is going to cost Sl.95 year, and q
gas-burner giving. about the same
light costs SIS year. That's what I
am working on now-the econoAnyzof
the thing; for If the electricrlight isn't
cheap, it's ofno value -
'Have you perfected any device for
measuring the amount of electricity
consumed by each burner7' 4s,e .aoii
t0h, yes; have got that all fixed,
have got a meter that tells how much
gas is consumed. But am not going
to be in a hurry about this thing. I
am going to get my system perfect,
and then the gas people win please
take back seat
Just now,' suggested the reporter,
you are lounglng here doing nothing.
If you don't work at the light, why
don't you put hand to some other of
your uneompleted inventionsr
my business is thinking said Edi.
son sand ! am thinking now. Still I
am business. 1t takes great deal of
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devote myself to those things that
promise to pay in the near future. So
you see there are many things that
are to certain extent speculative that
1 must drop for the time being
whats become of the megaphone
tho wonderful instrument for deaf
peopler
Il have got a man working on that
now. I have got to use electricity.
There is no other way of doing any
thing with it. I will have the ear
trumpet -oeuaeet.d With ~aoo--
Etri.a! machine that the hearer holds
in his lap. The megaphone is goSd
thing, for there is an awful demand
for it, asf 4e - sai.s-sfE s4'it o3if
.sAnd serophone and the phohonao-
tor and the other things beginning or
ending with phoner ,'a4s1 4iT
3, .All dropped for the present through
necessity ee.i r~iti .st .T,ue o9Li
Have pou yet received your cross
of the Legion of HonorTq assd seh
+ mo. Commissioner Mccormack
will bring that over with him.
do you think you will wear the
red ribbon every day
/ with blue shirt and dirty hands?
don't know. But I have received
the Grand Prix. gold medal, weigh
. ing half a pound. When Iget' hard
. up can take that to Simpsons. = 'fYou
know who Simpson is2' i'9b ffa1'p
The reporter avoided answering the
question by asking, Did it ever occur
to you that the momentum of q vehi-
Gle, like horse-car,s fOrn example,
might be stored up SO as to assistithe
vehicle to start after it had stopped
suddenly7' .esaiq 81 Iot
ooh, there are over hundred pat
ents on that thing answered Mr. Ed
ison, and some of them are now in
). use. Some man, I forgot who he was,
devised a very ingenious apparatus of
this kind. There was q spring coled
underneath the car, and as the car
stopped the momentum wound UP the
spring. Then, as the brakes were
!, loosened, the spring unwound and
| started the car with very little assist-
/ ance from the horses. II wss good
! thing, but the New York car people
: seemed never to see it. I don't know
f why, but suppose they don't care
very much about their horses.'a
And when,' asked the reporter,
} suddenly, SIS the Edison electric. lamp
|. to light Menlo Park p :3.t4R
} Il don't know answered Edison.
4 am going to be entirely sure Of N.Y.
self before I attempt to put the thing
in operation sVs2s''