New-York tribune., 1880-01-01
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
i,DlsON's ELECTRIC LIGHT.

DiSONS rLEN lhlC LlOnl.
CROWD OF VISITORS At MEMO PAnK-No rrn'
Lie rxuvBi1IOS PROMISED OR GivEN-MOlE
THAN FIFTY LIGuiS BURNING.
The unauthorized announcement that Thomas A.
EdIsons electric lights would be publicly exhibited
at MenlO Park, N. j., drew scores Of persons
to that place last evening. The crowd
that for several hours throngcd the labOra
tory aud the several workshops, and piled
the attendants with innumerable questions was
cOmpOscd chiefly of men who were interested di-
rectly or Indirectly In the success Of the lights. am
aierf And semi-prOfessonal scientific men who were
fairly running over with or less useful knowl-
edge.ard curious spec aOrs who seemed to be anxious
to acquaint themselves with the mysteries of the
new iuminatOr. Many ladies' were present, and
several oldfashioned wagons brought loads of farm
ers and their families from the ncighboring country
towns. Among the several hundred that were
present were ex-Secretary Robson, General Carse:
BARLEY Campbell, the author of :" Fairfax"
Farson Of Philadelphia; b. J. Arnold and Edward
Randolph Of Macon, Georgia, and w. Z. Strckler
OF Peoria Illinois The most OF the visitors % wh3 no
the country, from New BRUNSWICK to Illinois.
Comparatively few were from New-York.
that all renamed within the shops examining the
lights and the machines by which the various por:
tions were made. The newcomers always gathered
sions Of astonlshment W. loud and frequent. The
lights were steady and powerful, and did not throw
the sharply defined shadows that are seen from gas
lamps.
Among those who were interested in examining
the lights in the building a cloth manufacturer
Of who had come to see what arrange
mills mil with several hundreds s' Of these burners
He said that at present there was great
danger that the. innammable material would
take fire from lighting the gas jets. This
Sse &ss R s'nd s to sv 3d. 9F Ed% ca SA's ss iG
errands. Throughout the evening the work,
elements that 60 to make up the electric light sys
tenn to curiOns crowds of spectators. Mr.. Edison
himself was continually surrounded by dozen or
fifteen people. two or three OF whom were generally
To TRIBUNE reporter Mr.. Edison said that the
announcement that he intended to give public eS-
hibitiOn of his lights at Menlo Park last evening
Unauthorized, There We're between fifty and
sixty lights burning then. He should keep increas
ing this number daily. as rapidly, as was
practicable, and in five weeks he hoped that he
would have 500 lights burning. lie dscalnled any
intention of giving any formal exhibition. He
should increase the number of the lights as fast as
he could increase his facilities for generating the
electricity.
Last evening four private houses, those of Mr.
Edison. CHARLES Bachelor, Mrs. jordan, and +. X.
Upton were Illuminated by the new hight. and be-
side the lights in the workshops there were about
itors returned to New York the p. train, or
continued on their way to PHILADELPHIA
the new lamp which brout hit together the crowd
of visitors last night is an entirely different affair
from the Old one with which Mr Edison has
been experimenting for year. 1t consists of
a slender pencil of carbon, made mean
SIssent SsSs The in carbon yae" in the i%1 i" Of fS
horseshoe and Is made OF paper carbonizcd by
being subjected to intense heat IN rctOrt. The
light of Que gas Jet is obtained from each lamp MI
Edison believes it to be satisfactory lamp. and
claims to have now attained the success for which
he has so long been striving.