Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-02
EDISON.

alleged Completion of the Electric Liaht,
New York Cor. Indianapolis Journal.
On Monday ran out to Menlo park to see
what has been done toward the electric light
exhibition announced for Dec. l. The pro-
gress made since I was last out there is
absolute, and all hands are happy. When I
was at Menlo in the spring, Edison
expected to rely on his slow NOV
ing engine and the twenty four
dynamo machines that were to convert the
power into electricity. Now I find that the
slow-moving engine is to be abandoned. and
high-speed engine of 100 horse power will
be substituted for it. I also find that the
twenty four dynamos have been sent to the
hoib of old iron, and one dynamo has been
suba..7ted for them, capable of doing the
same work, though only four times as large.
This machine will feed 800 lamps, eight to a
horsepower. This is considerably better
than Edison's first promise two years ago.
The First district of New York city has
been organized, and is now being canvassed
for service. 1t covers the heavy business
district, lying between Park Row, Broad
way, Wall street, and the East River up to
Spruce street. This whole district will be
fed by twelve engines of 100 horse power
each. The right of way in the streets has
already been obtained from the city coun-
Gil.
never saw Edison looking so we'll. He
has gained twenty pounds, and is in very
joviai frame of mind. found him in the
laboratory, watching hundred electric
lamps, all burning, or rather glowing, on
the long workbench.
"What are you doing now?" I inquired.
"This is one of the last experiments" he
said cit is merely to decide on the details
of manufacture. lam going to give sixteen
| candles of effective light to burner, which
is about two candles more than an ordinary
gas-jet. 1 am testing these lamps to see
| which break quickest. All the lamps are
numbered, you see, corresponding to the
| numbers in this book, where is recorded q
history of each lamp. I raise the light to
seventy candle power (about four times the
strain they will ordinarily have to bear),
and then 1 watch to see where they break.
have already tried the experiment. twice
and found that 80 per cent. of them broke in
exactly the same place, have strengthened
| that spot, and am now after other weak
| nesses. These lamps must be produced by
machinery in large quantities., and want
suOiu oAdCtIy TlSut.
Instead of being loop of card board car
BOMBED, the form of horse shoe or invert-
| ed ox-bow, as last spring, the present incan-
descent part is fliment of BAMBOO Just the
shape and about the thickness of the Tin
| visible hair pin" with which ladies fasten
| their bewitching frizzes. Edison has just
started man to Cuba to select and forward
fne-texture bamboo. The United States
Electric company (Maxim), of this city, now
announces the first competitive light By
incandescence-all the former electric lights
having been illumination by the old Voltaic
area spark thrown across between two
points of carbon. "There can and will be
no compromise in electric Lighting" said
| MIR. Edison, ':for in my contract it is e1.
pressly stipulated that money shall be spent
in fighting infringers, instead Of dividing
with them.'' The form of the United
States company's lamp is that of Greek
| cross.
1--WE shall give away our lamps" said the
inventor, ''or rather hire them out, taking
money only for the use of them. Payment
will be made by the candle-power, instead oil
| by the foot, and simple method of meas
urement will enable every consumer to tell
any moment how much has heen used.''
Sixty men are now working steadily OF
| Menlo Park, and 800 lamp posts are up ready
for the lamps.