The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-01-21
Edison and His Electric Light-whst ths.
Inventor Has to Say.


NEW YORK, Jan. l5.-The Sun this morning
says: There was published yesterday state
ment that matters in the shops of Inventor
Ellison, in MeDlO Park, are rather AT p stand
still; that many lamps have suddenly gone
ont owing to the break ing Of the carbon horse
shoes, and that Edison is now at work SOLVING
was said that the lights crack
the lamp. glasses and admits air. The
that Edison hopes To overcome the difficulties
in time 10 introduce the light into practical
use in New York before next winter. Alr. Ed
ison was shown these statements last night,
and said: ''Some of these statements are false
hoods, and some OF them ar quite true The
,amps have not gone out, and the esTaon r,
some of The lamps have been cracked
and That air hes thus gained entrance to the
flame Is true. This does not affect my in ven
tiOn. IL ia purely mechanical fault
trouble with the glass. do no. claim % have
perfected that part OF my lamp. am still eN-
peFimenting with II. Then Mr. Edison tool
one of his Iiftle srls 60 naersbar1ed laporS in Iii
hands and showed how some Of them had
broken. few defec i've ones broke a.
where the inner wire and glass were Joined
to the big vacuum glass, but the majority
broke where the platina pene,Tates the inner
bulb. Edison has found out that he can MAKO
an almost perfect lamp by using certain kind
Of glass and shaping them by hand, buJ -
would be expensive, and the first object he
strives to obtain is cheapnesS His lamp must
be perfect and CHEAP also. To be cheap IL must
be made 10y machinery. He does not want
~ TO cost more luin OF
80 cents. He makes the big ontside bulb OF
his lamp OF the best glass, unanealed and Thin
enough 70 be elastic, and, therefore, stronger
Tor the purpose Of a lamp than lit were thick
glass. This can not ne better4d. Only thCse
that badly made broken-the
trou4ie with the inner bulb in ats relation 10
The wires that pierce it. His experiments
have shown him that by soldering
platinum wires firmly ia he place where they
pierce The inner bulb with cement OF "A pecul-
lal whne glass that ne has C5taiL,d from La
rope, there is result cf Oniy 2per cent. break
age. Now by anneling this glass that com
pOSfs the inner bulb, he believes that the
bTeakage viii lall to rer cent. "Hang 1t,
he says, ia his quick way, "If they
would only break right away
could hurry up experiments, but they
don't, but some OF them crack in "a hours,
some in two weeks, and Others have been
burning four weeks and have not cracked
yet. As for them going out. there Is this re-
markabI- thing about IL, they crack and yet
don't go out. When all these people go away,
he said. at another time, referring 10 sight
seers that throng his place unfii the O'Clock
train lakes away the last one, "I'll go 10 work,
and Then YOU won't think things here are at
y stand still
Edison intends To increase the number Oi
| lamps in Menlo Park 10 600 or 100, because. he
| SAYS that the more lamps he has 10 study and
experiment. with the sooner he VIII remedy
| The defect that is now bis only obstacle. 30
| far as could be learned estefttay there have
been no sales OF electric stock for some time
The highest bid IS 81 ,3Oo per share, while none
| is offered al less than $3.50 and 81 ,0O0.