The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-12-25
NEWS FROM EDISON.

The Nav York HrnM Of tho twenty first
instant dcvotns moro than d rhge To tho
description IF Edsons completed discoveries
I'm tho matter Of electric lighting. A. onr
readers know. the adaptation Of electricity to
tho production Of light In open air, IN lrrR"
halls, on ehipboard. even III factories. has nj
| ready been perfected and that Til" syetem
has been III practical operation Tor somH tlinn
pnat. II has been anon by thou~nda Mt Nth-
CARA at Brighton Beach. Mt Madison square.
1T Saratoga. III numerous public places
throughout thr country. Hundreds OF fac
tory hands In Rhode Ialand and Connecticut
are working by the mysterious light every
night. and thousands Of peopIo In all parts Of
tho world have tested tho efficacy OF the light
by that best OF NIL standards the standard
Of personal experience. Tho question
81 domestic Illumination. however. has up to
this time remained problem. Although the
creation Of Hight has become an every day
thing. and 50 passed into the commonplace.
the divisibility Of tho electric current and it's
application to purposes Or household lllumi-
nation has continued to bale experiment and
to disappoint expectation. For weeks past.
nay. for months. the eyes Of the world have
besn centornd upon Ellison, the Wizard Of
Mnnlo Park" tho man who has startled the
world with haif n dozen wonders within
the paat two years. md who it we under
stood. had undertaken the new labor OF eolv-
Ing tho perplexlng problem. From time 10
limo we have heard OF his progress, or, rather
hack Of progross-how hn wrestled valnIy
with the effort to utilize platinum In such u
manner as to place it IN successful eompoti-
ton with gasas u popular Illuminating agent.
Indeed. tho majority Of people always
skepticn had begun to dismiss him as q
fnilurc. when auldcny the announcement
was made that Ellison had completed his In
Vestl4ations and had made arrangements to
Civ" u public exhibition on the night of Naw
Year Evc. Tho announcement excited uni
veranl interest md attention. In anticipation
If tho object Of which tho Now York Ucrnfd
lnat week sent n correspondent 10 MenIo
Park.
We have before u9 the full history Of Edi-
SOM study and experiment. beginning nj tho
beginning and carrying us forward 10 the
tiual and absolute SUCCESS 1t turns out that
Edison some time ago abandoned platinum.
and that tho material upon which ha has re-
lied to produce the required incandescence is
not platinum or anything else expensive or
scarce, but simply paper nero little strip
of common "Brstol" cardb hoard from which,
by the simple process of baking, he obtains
nm illuminating agent far moro infusible than
platinum and more durable than granite |
With this little paper horse-shoe. enclosed In
u glass vacuum and connected with his gen |
erntor Eiiaon produces perfect light steady |
as the sun. giving no odor, creating no gas, u
light without llline and without danger in |
finit"ly better for every human purpose than
gus and cheaper. tho inventor says, than tho |
cheapest oil.
The lamp IL mnrvel ofsnplcIty, and can
be made OF the sizs required for houses, ut n
total cost of twenty ve cents
Thus, we believe with the Hrrdti, that the
civilized world may nj last be congratulated
upon the perfection Of discovery which
nakes their emancipation from gas compn.
les n mere question OF time. and Of very
ittn time. In u week from this morning the
world will know the result of tho public test
II Mr. EiIHonA apparatus, and then tho aaso-
,iation Of great capitalists who are behind the
treat inventor can rapidly place the glorious
rsult within tho reach Of the humbeBt In the
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