Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-23
Edison Mt Paris.
The Electric Exhibits with which lie In =
tends to AstOnlsh Europe.

The Electric Exhibits with whic:, lie In
tends to AstOnish Europe.
The New York World of yesterday
says: The last consignment of electric
lamps and appliances from the Edison
electric light company for the internation-
al electrical exhibition, which is to begin
ut Paris next month were sent from this
city yesterday in charge of Mr.. Batch
elor. Mr.. Edison's first assistant. For the
last two months boxes containing electric
apparatus of all kinds have been shipped
on every outgoing French steamer. Mr..
Edison and Mr.. Bachelor have been work.
ing for the last two weeks ut the laboratory
in Gocrck street preparing this last ship
meEt and perfecting Il ucw dynamo ma
chine of increased power. Last night, for
the first time, Mr.. Edison slept at home,
for he has been working ni.ht and day at
his laboratory. A number of his assist
ants, already in Paris, have completed all
the rough worl. for tie exposition which
is to be made by his company. Machines
have been set UP and his station is we'll
wired and only needs the presence Of Mr..
BatchclOr, who is to supeIintend the final
details, in order to be ready for the open
ing on the first day of August. Over go
boxes have now been shipped 10y MIR. Ed
ison, and it. is expected that within a few
days Mr.. +. III. johnson, one of Mr.. Edi-
sons supcrntcndents, will leave for Eng
land in order to establish model station
in London similar to the one on Fifth av-
cnue, in this city.
Among the apparatus that Mr.. Batch
elor took with him yesterday to Paris are
the following: Electric lighting ex-
hibit, 12j horse power steam dynamo and
several dynamos Of less power, one 5
horse power and several motors Of less
power. = 900 electric lamps, with specially
prepared fixtures and complete appliances
for regulating the current, for guarding
against fire and for assuring absolute
trustworthinesS of light at all times and
large number OF machines for demon
strating every detail OF Il complete sys-
tenn of electric lighting. Mr.. Edison has
somewhat improved his lamp since last
winter. Then Il one horse power machine
fed seven lamps, each OF which burned for
four months. Now the same machine
supplies nine lamps, each of which will
burn for seven months. The size of the
carbon has been reduced one fifth without
impairing the perfection of the tilament
This part of his exhibition of the uses of
electricity, Mr.. Edison thinks. will be par
ticularly interesting to the P:lrisians, in
aSmuch rs he has secured u license from
the municipality ot Paris to light up one
section of the city. and he thinks that he
will be enabled from this exhibition to
form a company for the lighting of the
whole city.
In the other departments OF the exhibi-
tiOn OF the application of electricity Mr..
Edisons skill will be we'll displayed. A
complete telegraph system will be seen in
his show rooms. The automatic (MOrse),
the automatic roman letter and the auto
graphic systems will be fully demonstrated
Mr.. Edison thinks the autOgraphic system
will ut some future day astonish the world
when it can be further developed. At
present this system will reproduce in Phil
adelphia fac similc of the handwriting of
a message written in this city. Besides
these in the telegraphic department the
duplex and quadruplcx instruments now in
common Use here will be exhibited. A
number of telephones are also included in
the list, including the carbon telephone,
the photograph telephone, the photograph
musical telephone. the telephone recorder,
which is the telephone and phonograph
combined, and a multitude of telephones
of different construction and principles.
Among the miscellaneous articles al
ready in Paris o. in charge of Mr.. BatcLel-
or are a pressure relay or Il photograph
relay in the tclesraphc exhibit, tassi-
meter, carbon rleostat. a photograph
battery, and exhibition of the application
of the etheric force, a number of phonO-
graphs and megaphones, and a large num-
Der OF electric lamps. showing the various
stages of the development of the electric
light from the first platinum lamp to the
improved carbon light practical illustra.
tions of the use of electricity as motive
power, a complete system OF underground
street tubes. mains and feeders for the
purpose of lighting up sections of Cities
and an ore milling apparatus which will
be operated by tile use of the electric cur
rent. This is only 4 partia! list and does
not include many of the machines and ap- |
pllances which were sent over before the |
work was begun
In this city Mr.. Edison is still pushing
on his preparations for lighting the dis |
trict bounded by Spruce and Wall streets |
and Nassau street and the East river. |
The wires have been put in nearly five |
hundred houses and the district will prob |
ably he lighted about the first of October. |
'Ihe work is all completed with the cx
ceptlOn of the erection of the heavy en-
gines in the central station. The contract |
made with the subscribers is that the |
light shall cost the same amount as gas.
The lighting of this district, Mr.. Edison
thinks, will reduce the cost of gas to 81 |
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