Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-05-03

New YORK, May 1.-The Times publishes
the following: Henry Goebel, a German
electrician, exhibited last evening at No.
46S Grand street an incandescent electric
light, embracing various new features, of
which he is the inventor. Eight three-quar-
ter lamps were placed on exhibition, worked
by a two horse power. The lamps gave forth
clear white light, no vibration or flicker
ing being perceptble. The most delicate
shades of color were distingui-habIe under
the light of the lamps. Mr.. Goebel claims
for his light that it has the highest resisting
power of any electric light yet invented
The chief feature OF his light is that it has
carbon of high resisting power which at the
point of juncture with the wire is immersed
in fluid of Mr.. Goebel's invention, which is
specially adapted to resist the action of heat.
The csrbons are formed from ibers OF reeds,
which have been reduced in furnace of a
high degree of heat. They are then bent
into any shape desired and sunk into
platinum, which is covered with the fluid
adapted to resist heat which Mr.. Goebel
has invented. With these ingredients Mr.
Goebel claims to have produced the best in
candescent electric light yet invented. The
electricity is generated in the usual way by
means of a steam-engine and dynamo ma
chine. Mr.. Goebel states that his light has
twice the resisting power of any light yet
produced, and that, under the rule the
greater the resisting power the less the cost,
be can furnish the light at lower cost than
involved by the use of gas. The light is
capable of subdivision by disconnecting
switches, on the same principle as turning
the tap OF gas lamp. The cost of the
lamps is little less than twenty-five cents
apiece Several well-known electricians
have seen the light and are very much i'm
pressed with it. Mr.. Goebel has also in
vented, in connection with the light, an i'm
proved vacuum pump based on the Geissler
system of vacuum pumps, but adapted to
render the operation of the same mech anical,
SO that unskilled hands can operate the
pump and evacuate electric lamps and other
vessels in rapid and reliable manner. The
invention consists of Geissler pump
provided with an air discharge valve at
its upper end, the whole structure being
supported on a pivoted frame, which
is oscillated by means of a hand
lever SO as to throw body of mercury into
a trough-shaped horizontal portion of the
vacuating tube and form therin a mercurial
seal. The mercury receptacle connected
with the pump is adapted to be raised to the
proper hight by a suitable hosting mechan-
ism, until the surplus mercury passes through
a discharge valve at the top of the pump, :
and then back again by connecting tube to
the vertically placed mercury receptacle. |
Upon the lowering of the mercury receptacle |
the pump is returned into normal position
and is ready Tor eVacu alton. Mr.. GOebel
states that the main advantage of this i'm
proved vacuum pump is that it contains no
ground glass stop-cock, which is always a
source oil leakage. Another advantage of
this pump is that its operation is entirely
mechanical, and it can be tended by inexperi- |
enced hands, which is an important feature
when large numbers of electric vacuum |
lamps have to be evacusted. Mr.. Goebel |
has been experimenting for the past thirty |
years in electricity. He states that he in
vented an electric light twenty nine years
ago, which he exhibited on the roof |
of his house, No. 2714 Monroe street. |
this city. On the first evening that he did
so, he says, the alarm was sounded, and the |
engines came around to his house, and he |
was arrested and taken to the police station |
on a charge OF disorderly conduct. He was, |
however, discharged an hour later by Justice |
Wood to whom he explained the origin of |
the light, and that he had merely exposed it |
for the purpose of experimenting with it in |
the open air. Since that time he has ire |
quentiy become Impoverished by his electri- |
cal experiment., and has more than once |
given up his attempts in this direction in |
despair. He says that the electric light is |
by no means new an invention as it is |
popularly supposed to be, and that forty |
four years ago he knew of a professor in |
Hanover, Germany, who invented good |
electric light, but Who died while striving to |
overcome the difficulty Of producing it upon |
a commercial basis. Mr.. Goebel has a num- |
bar of patents covering all the points neces- |
sarv TO the production of his light