Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1881-07-22
EDlsON's ELECTRIC EDiFIcA'
TlONB.

II
progress With all his various Inventions
schemes and projects. collectively. he 10
still advancing. Like Q hen which has
Matched out an overplus Of chickens, hs
1. bringing along his brood in good
order. Occasionally N other ann
bilious and cumulative rooster makes .
brush and gets in ahead on some prop
osi,iop, like Brush with the electric
light, bat Edison continues scratching
along in the sven tenor Of his way. In
the sweet BY and BY be will produce his
liQht from under the bushsl basket OF
chronic ~obscurity. whore be has held 1t
back 90 long. and perhaps Edison's
light may yet prove best for all practical
lighting purposes. According to latest
telegraph sdvioes. Edison 10 still push.
ing forward his preparations for lighting
one Of the principal districts OF New
York. The wires have been put into
nearly ave hundred houses. aud 1t IL
proposed to turn on the illuminating
principle about the arst Of October.
The works are oil completed with the
exception Of the erection OF tie heavy
engines In the central station. The
contract made with the subscribers ID
that the light shall cost the same amount
- gas. The lighting OF the district.
Edison thinks. will reduce the cost OF
gas to one dollar per thousand cubic
feet.
Edison's light 10 Of . different style
from that Of Brush. II is.of the inoan-
descent order. the light being pro-
duoed by the electric current driven
through Q thin arc OF carbon enclosed
and Dramatically sealed in . small. thick
globe OF glass. about the size Of ones
fat. Brush's light 10 . much more
cumbrous and brilliant affair. being pro-
duosd BY the passage Of spowsriul cur.
rent OF electricity from n carbon point
or pencil to another placed closely op-
posits to 1t. This 10 the true electric
light, being . continuous Aow Of electric
sparks through the open cir. Ito intensity
and capacity being apparently regulated
by the size Of the carbon points (ths
present ones In use being about as large
a. ordinary candlss). and the power Of
the electricity generating engines en-
ployed. For street lighting or for large
lights required at prominent points. this
Light seems to be the best. a. far - IL has
been tried. but for ordinary purposes.
in door illumination. the lighting Of
mines. etc.. Edison's light 10 likely to
prove to be the best. cheapest. and most
practicable. Time will show.
Edison has not been able to produce
any startling new inventions Of late. be-
ing too busily engaged in psrfscting
those hs has already made. especially
the electric light. but at the coming
electrical exhibition In Paris be proposes
TO BE- properly represented by . comprs-
hsnsivs grouping Of oil the inventions
he has perfected up to the present time.
or 10 about bringing to perfection. This.
II 10 stated. will make n~insty.two groups.
Specimens Of every instrument will be
shown In working order. from . mon-
s,sr lss.horss power dynamo generator.
Supplying energy to . vast number OF
slxtsen-eandls power lights down through
the long list Of telegraph appliances.
g,ld and stock indicators. ~tsleersphic
printing machines. telephones. phono-
graphs. meters for measuring currents
supplied to the divisibls lighting sppsrs-
tbs. the processes Of manufacture Of
carbon horssshoes. the new iron ore sep.
arators. and o multitude OF other invsn.
lions which It would Be difficult to
snumsrate.
The French and other European cleo
tyicians will inspect this American pre-
sanitation With much interest, and with
not altogether overwhelming surprise.
for they have studi,d most Of the points
Of merit at issue themselves. and In fact
have already claimed that all are not
original with Edison BY any means. II
will Be . comprehensive exhibition,
however. Of startling merit a. showing
the remarkable ingenuity and inventive
talent and ability Of n very live Amer
loan. and serve to open the eyes Of for
sisnsrs. although could all OF Edison's
inventive promises b then and there pre-
ssn,sd it would cause those foreign eye
balls to project like locomotive head.
lights.