New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-02-24
EDLsONs WORKS. IN Paris.
HIS PLANS FOR THE EXPOSITION.
EXTENSIVE PREPARATIONS FOR THE DISPLAY
OF ELECTRICAL, INVENTIONS

OF ELECTRICAL INVENTIONS,
For several days Thomas A. Edison has been busily
engaged in sending of articles for bis exhibit at the
Paris Exposition. Nearly one-third of the entire
floor space allowed to the United states has been pvon
TO him, and HIS preparations an extensive
scale. The exhibit of Photographs WIZ include
large number OF Instruments each Of the latest type.
with Mr.. Edson's latest improved automatic tension
regulator. corps OF assistants Will be in attend-
ance speaking nearly all the languages Of the civilized
world. All tho various kinds Of instruments VIII be
shown, nom the original phonograph now in the South
KeDsington Museum, London down to the very latest
improved type
The telegraph department viii contain models Of
all the machines and patents that Mr. Edison has
worked out and all the Improvements he has effected
In the telephone division there viii be a chronological
arrangement of all the devices from the original Edi
instrument popularity known as the Bako trans
mitter,' down to his latest improved motorgraph 90
ud-speaking telephone There win be complete
working system set up showing the Edison carbon
telephones and the photographs working in iuxtapo-
ton In electric lighting there will be complete
threcwire municipal system extending over all the
exhibit complete with motor, dynamos, central sta
ton, and indicating and regulating apparatus, as
perfect as II for large city. The principal feature
of the whole exhibit, however, will be an enormous
model OF an incandescent lamp forty feet high, the
globe being composed of TO less than 10000 IN
candescent lamp bulbs, and the luminous nlamens
within being indicated by loop of red colored In
candescent lamps. The effect when the light 10
flashed into these thousands of bulbs win be wonder
fully brilliant, and 1t will illuminate the entire main
building.
Around the base of this novel lamp viii be a
series Of panels illustrative Of the various stages OF
the manufacture of ncsndescen lamps. and on either
side Will be the French and American fegs worked
out In colored incandescent globes. One VIII be I'm
serlbed "Paris,' and the other Edlson' Among
oth yrfil he dvnamO caDable OF
running 1000 lamps much the largest dynamo that
has ever been constructed. An interesting feature
viii be series of charts 100 In number showing the
growth and development OF all Mr.. Edison's inven-
tons, from the first crude idea, through all the sue
cessive stages, TO the complete and perfected insrr
ment There win be number Of frames showing ths
1laments In their natural condition, and after being
carbonized with samples, arranged in chronological
order, of all the substances that have been expert
mented with In this direction.
An interesting map of the first electric central
station and district 10 this city VIII
also be exhibited, with tabular statement show
ing the growth of the business from not
loss of 44b7 in 1883 to net profit of s1.s,2s6 In
1885, and this despite the reduction of gas to 81 rs
per 1000 feet while the equivalent cost Of electric
Hight is 80 Is,
novel effect viii be produced by large alle-
gorical picture being painted In the laboratory
entitled aMenlo Park. the birthplace Of the ncan-
descent lamp II win show the original workshops
and laboratory Of the wizard at MEMO Park IN tho
gray twilight Of wintry day, with food Of radiance
streaming from the windows. In the foreground ana
running around to the right Is shown the original
first electric railroad ever bulk. Rising out OK
the central building Is vast ghostly mean
descent bulb whose radiating beams illuminate sene;
of bordering designs showing the principal
buildings of the world now lighted by the Edison sys-
tenn, among them the Palace OF the MiEado OF JAPAN
fbe Houses OF Parliament both In London and in Cage
Town. South Africa and the palace of the Emperor OF
Siam.
have already been made and the remainder VIII %
packed and shipped within week or two. The Ex-
position win open on May 4, when Mr. Edison expecu
to have the entlre exhibit I'm working order