Morning journal and courier., 1889-01-31
LUCIGEN.

An open Flame of Great Brtlllancy For Lighting Shops, Foundries,
 Railroad Yards, Docks, Ete.-KXkI. bitten of This Wonderful and Pow
 erful Light 1n Now Haven. New Haven is to be the center of a new industry if present indications can count fol anything Over on "Grape Vine Point Tuesday night at the New Haven Nail com. panys factory an illuminator was exhibited which is apt to revolutionize the lighting for shops, foundries, railroad yards, rolling mills, docks, bridges, wharyes, quarries, ship yards, wrecking trains, marine railway works, excavating, and, in short, any place where an open flame of great brilliancy can be used.
 The light displayed Tuesday night is known as the Lucigen la mp, brilliant and powerful rival of the various gas and electric contrivances now flooding the market. The workings of the Lucigen were fully explain ed by Mir. W. W. Miner and MT. Robert K. Runyon, who have come to New Haven to reside and who will, with pleasure, furnish all information with regard to this his highly important and valuable discovery of illum- ination. Two lamps were placed in position in the interior of the Nail company's forging department and one in the yard, outside of the building, fronting Chapel street. So strong was the light that a newspaper could be read with little inconvenience fully three hundred feet away from any of the three lamps. At the time of the exhibition 8 strong breeze was blowing in from the harbor but even then the glowing light burned very steadily and easily. This fact, indeed, was favorably commented on by the spectators, of whom there were some thirty present, in cludinR representatives of Sargent 6 Co.,, O. B. North, Peck Brothers, Bigelow & Go. and other large local concerns and Superintendent Waterbury of the Air Line division of the Consolidated road. On Thursday night (to- night) the Lucigen will be displayed at Peck Brothers factory on Franklin street and Mayor Peck himself will be present.
 The Lucigen lamp is @ new discovery. The patent rights are owned by the Industrial Light company of New York city, and it is successfully being operated in nearly all the large foundries and rolling mills of Great Britain and many in our western States. The American rights are controlled by the Indus- trial Light company with officers at 196 Tenn pie Court, New York. Mir. Robert K. Run- yon has the sole agency for the district lying east of Ogdensburg, N. Y., and the lamps are now being introduced in the New England cities.
 The chief recommendation of the Lucigen is it's extreme cheapness together with the facility with which it can be operated. To show this it is only necessary to state that a
 
 ated for an hour with two-thirds of gallon of creosote oil, or crude petroleum, at a cost of about two cents. This cost is only pro- portionately increased when a 2,000 candle light power is required. They make from 200 to 12, 900 candle-pow burners.
 It is operated by means of compressed air, which reduces the oil to an exceedingly fine spray, almost equal to vapor. The quanti- ty of air thus used (under fifteen to twenty pounds pressure) to maintain light of 1 200 actual candle power does not exceed one cubic foot of free air per minute.
 It is simple in construction, safe, easily manipulated and not liable to get out of or. der. By one movement of the hand both the air and oil are turned on or off.
 It is economical both in cost of plant and in maintenance; is more efficient and costs less than any of the electric arc systems in use.
 Another advantage is that the Lucigen burns without smoke or offensive odor, cast ing no black shadows, but producing light similar to that of sunlight. Members of New Haven's Chamber of Commerce have seen the light and have expressed themselves as much interested and highly pleased with the wonderful results displayed. It is also a matter of congratulation that some portion 1 ,f the manufacturing eonnectedlwith this en- ;erprise will be brought to New Haven.