The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-02-12
ELECTRIC LIGHTING.


There is now in use and on exhibition at tn Q
PRESS office some electric lighting by the
Faure electric storage and light system The
plant consists of a small dynamo connected
with the main shaft, employed in running the
press taking about one-horse power, thirty
small cells of the Faure battery and fifteen in
candescent lamps The light is soft, clear
mellow and absolutely steady, the nearest APP
proach to sunlight yet secured by any system
OF artificial Lighting. The chandeliers
adorned with lily.shaped shades of various
colors, give novel and beautiful effect
Among the numerous advantages claimed for
this method the most noteworthy are The
small amount of power needed and its inde-
pendence OF the time and regularity of fur
nishing the same The batteries can be stored
at any hour of the day by power that usually
goes to waste; kept until wanted, and used in
any quantity and at any time when needed; ;
can be attached to machinery run by either
water Or steam, and are not liable to Interrupt
tion from breakdown in running gear; in
fact, can be adapted to any form or circum-
stance of power, and can be all accumulated
at central station for lighting five thousand
or more buildings connected by wires thereto
or furnished in small numbers to isolated plants
where there Happens 20 be power. Surely a
very revolution in the original cost of plants.
No matter in what manner the current passes
into the battery its discharge into the lamps in
use is uniform, which accounts for the abso-
lutte immobility of the light.
Tbs control the user has over the flow is
complete, the lamps being instantaneously
lighted or extinguished, whether there be one
or hundred, by merely turning button, and
the strength of any or all the lamps increased
or dimished at pleasure. Its uniform strength
aud quality throughout the night or a success
on of night is a feature that must be appreci-
sted by sll night workers who have heretofore
depended upon the uncertain, varying gas JET,
which waivers and flickers in the slightest cur
rent of air. The non-vitation of the air by
this system constitutes one of its great advan-
tages over other illuminants, especially where
numbers work together in close apartments,
as ty pe-setters, etc. Another great point in its
favor is the immunity given from danger of
fire by its employment. The wires are abso-
luely Insulated throughout their length, and,
as in the case with those now in use in the
REss Office, can be run without the slightest
risk along wood partitions and be held in pc
sition by wooden ceats. and handled as freely
as an ordinary bell cord. Dispensing entire
ly with matches it thus avoids a cause of many
fires. These incandescent lamps may be used
in the show windows of stores with absolute
safety among the most delicate fabrics, as it
gives off no sooty products of imperfect COM
bustion as has been often observed where gas
IS employed, and with no possibility of risk of
starting a confagration among the goods, for
should one of the globes be broken the flame
is instantly extinguished by the admission of
air. People are welcome to visit the PRESS
Office and examine the new light