Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1886-09-02
EOIsoN.s LATEST IDEA.

~ instrament Tor Utilizing Earth CuF-
rents IN Place OF Telegraph Wires.
When Thomas Edison. the whilom
wizard Of Menlo Park" brought his
bride TO his eighty thousand dollar resi-
dence on the Orange Mountain about
two months ago, he also determined to
b",ng his workshop within easy access
from his residence. Carrying out his
| purpose tho great electrician has been
busy for period OF six weeks i'm put.
ting mp workshop in East Newark.
and there he was found this morning,
breezy. blue-eyed. little stouter than
he was two years ago and a trine more
! settled.
am workingman now. he said
smillngly. IL bring my lunch with me
IN the morning, for | can not afford To
| spare the time to go home To dinner.
OF course. YOU know that | have be-
| come Jerseyman once more | lave
given up my laboratory i'm New York,
and every thing is now AT the factory
here in East Newark"
'At what are YOU working now
Il ann simply trying to cheaper the
| electric lamps and the carbons. | have
had men almost all over the United
States and south America looking for Il
vegetable or mineral substance from
which carbon points might be made.
Prof. Hedden. of Newark. a mineralo-
gist. IN travelling through the Southern
States, failed to find what wanted. but
he discovered the 'Heddenite' and for
tune IN North Carolina"
Have YOU done nothing recently
with electricity
You newspaper people" sad Mr..
Edison, laughing. think that ALWAYS
must have Just completed some won
derful invention, which | ought to tell
YOU about. Why don't YOU devour each
Others fiction? An American CORE
spondent wrote toa Berlin paper recent
" tremendous story about my having
invented wonderful shirt of gelat.ne.
made transparent by electrical treat
mcnt. This shirt was supposed TO
he built i'm LAYERS of almost
Uncomfortable thinness. Each layer
| was white and adhesive. and could
bee taken oil when soiled. and rs there
Were just 800 layers, and it was calcul-
ated that each sheet would last day,
| gelat'ne garment would last a wear.
J Wen. this marvellous tale went the
rounds of the European press and ut
last IT was reprinted in Brazil. The
| gullib litv of the South American may
appreciated when it is known that soon
after the shirt story met their ewes the
| B"a>llians began To send me drafts and
| checks for shirts. One idiotic diamond
dealer. adde Mr.. Edison, mirthfiillv.
sent me draft for $500 on the Bank
al England. lie wrote that he didn't
| know how much the shirts were. but he
did not think they ought TO cost over a
hundred pounds apiece.
seriously said he, drawing out a
sheet OF paper and pencil. there is
but one idea am thinking of that |
care to talk about. As soon as | can
find time To 90 TO Florida | am going to
make some experiments with earth cur
| rents | can not do il here because
| there l. too much mineral i'm the soil.
In Florida il Is all sand. There are
currents of electricity passing
all the time through the
| earth; their direct onS. however.
are unknown. | propose TO arrange
q ght currents. radiating i'm as many Ill
reciions from a central point. | will
| place e man ut each circuit to test the
| power of the currents. II j. well-known
| that if an earth current crosses a wire
| ~ right angles there is but little. If any,
| appr,c able effect made upon it, The
| greatest power i felt where the wire
and currents run IN parallel directions.
I'm Boston have run wire six hours
with The aurora borealiS without a bat
terry. If had had rod at that time
running from New York to Boston |
would have had electric power enough
20 r"p all the machinery in Boston "
''Afirr YOU understand the ear,hs
current what them"
''Well. knowledge of them may rev.
olut onizc telegraphy. 1t may revoIu-
tioniIc the meteorological bureau svs-
ten and make it possible to forecast the
weather exactly. have an idea that t
may do something still greater. but do
not care to talk about it at present.
| photographic wires oouer or later VIII
hc 81 thing OF the past. believe They
are expensive and cumbersome. and
why u>e them il YOU can make an in
,irumcni that will b, sensitive TO the
natural earth CURRENTS" Ncrarb (N.
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