The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-13
ED1soN's WORKS IN PARIS.
Extensive Preparations F. or the Dis
play of Electrical Inventions.

Extensive Preparations T or the Dis
play of Electrical Inventions.
From the Neto York Tribune.
For several days Thomas A. Edison has
been busily engaged in sending off articles
for his exhibit at the Paris exposition.
Nearly one-third Of the entire floor space
allowed to the United States has been given
to him, and his preparations are on an ex-
tensive scale. The exhibit of monographs
will include large number of instruments,
each of the latest type, with Mr.. Edison's
latest improved automatic tension regula-
tor. A corps of assistants will be in attend
ance, speaking nearly all the languages of
the civilized world. All the various kinds of
instruments will be shown, from the origi-
nal photograph now in the South Kensing
ton Museum, London, down to the very lat
est improved type.
The telegraph department will contain
models of all the machines and patents
that Mr.. Edison has worked out and all the
Improvements he has effected. In the tele-
phone division there will be chronological
arrangement of all the devices from the
original Edison instrument popularity known
as the BLAKE transmitter," down to his lat
est improved photograph, or loud-speak1ug
telephone There will be a complete work
ing system set up showing the Edison car
ing in juxtapositon. In electric lighting
there will be a complete three-wire munich
pal system extending over all the exhibit,
complete with motor, dynamos, central
station, and Indicating and regulating ap
paratus, as perfect as if for large city.
The principal feature of the whole exhibit,
however, will be an enormous model of an
incandescent lamp 40 feet high, the globe
being composed of no less than 20, 600 in
candescent lamp bulbs, and the luminous
filament within being indicated by loop of
red colored incandescent lamps. The effect
when the light is flashed into these thous-
ands of bulbs will be wonderfully brilliant,
and it will illuminate the entire main
building.
Around the base Of this novel lamp will
be series of panels illustrative of the va
rious stages of the manufacture of mean
descent lamps, and on either side will be the
French and American flags worked out in
colored incandescent globes. One will be
inscribed Paris" and the other Edison"
Among other novelties will be huge
dynamo capable of running 1000 lamps.
much the largest dynamo that has ever been
constructed. An interesting feature will
be series of charts, 100 in number, show
ing the growth and development of all Mr..
Edison'S inventions, from the first crude
idea, through all the successive stages, to the
complete and perfected instrument. There
will be number of frames showing the
ilaments in their natural condition, and
after being carbonized, with samples, ar
ranged in chronological order, of all the
substances that have been experimental
with in this direction.
An interesting map of the first electric
central station and district in this
city will also be exhibited, with a
tabular statement showing the
growth of the business from net loss of
g., 457 in 1883 to a net profit of $1l6,23 in
1888, and this despite the reduction of gas
to 81 25 per 600 feet, while the equivalent
cost of electric light is So 25.
A novel effect will be produced by a large
allegorical picture now being painted in the
laboratory, entitled "Menlo park. the birth
place of the incandescent lamp" 1t will
show the original workshops and labora-
tory of the wizard at Menlo park in the
gray twilight of a wintry day, with flood
OF radiance streaming from the windows.
In the foreground and running around to
the right is shown the original first electric
railroad ever built. Rising out of the CEN
trail building is vast ghostly incandescent
bulb whose radiating beams illuminate
series of bordering designs showing the
principal buildings of the world now lighted
by the Edison system, among them the
palace of the Mikado of Japan, the houses
of parliament, both in London and in Cape
Town, South Africa, and the palace Of the
Emperor of Siam.
Three large shipments. of several hun
| bred cases have already been made and the
remainder will be packed and shipped with
| in a week or two. The exposition will open
| on May 4, when Mr.. Edison expects to have
the entire exhibit in working order.