Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-07-15

civilization. 1t will then be not only
day, but a glorious, beautiful day"
1t mey be mentioned al this point that
to d. McFarlan Moore, the American
electrician, who has done as much to
popularize the use Of electric light as
any living man probably, belongs the
credit of having first called the attention
of scientists to the impending change.
Tesla has indeed been experimenting
for years, and long ago indicated
the lines along which the transior'
nation would be wrought. Mr..
Moore, however. demonstrated why the
near future will witness the commercial
adoption of the transmission OF light
through tubes, and that electricity is to
be the agent Of this consummation. IL
is declared by scientists that while the
conversion OF heat into power and power
again into the current known as elec-
tricity, seems to have reached a limit
for the present at least, the matter OF
producing light from electricity has
hardly begun to be studied.
The incandescent lamp Is admitted y
the illuminant OF to-day. In spite oil
its conceded advantages, however, the
scientific world has come TO look upon
it as crude contrivance for reasons
apart from the humiliating clrcum-
stance that to extract five per cent oil
light, ninety-fve per cent. OF the con-
stituent elements goes to utter waste.
Therefore, in spite OF the practical
elimination OF the factors OF heat and
odor from the problem OF fispeliing
darkness, scientists have for years been
at work 10 an endeavor not so much TO
make new discoveries as 10 utilize dis
coveries already made.
Now, what is known as phosphores-
cent, or glow lighting, has come TO De
recognized as the source OF untold MIL
lions TO the capitalists who can hrst re-
duce it to a marketable commodity In
the cities of ;he world. So fer the
great cost attending It's utilization has
stood in the way OF any such enter
prise. Now comes Mr.. Moore who
makes the assertion in Casters maya
zine that electric sparks rapidly sue
| ceeding one another in vacuum are
the key to the whole treasure house.
| This fact is shown by means OF an
ingenious contriyance now Iamillar
10 most electricians, in which the
current of electricity IL repeatedly
broken BY rapid vibrations. The vlora'
tiops produce a corresponding number
| Of sparks which act upon the ether IN
a bulb duly placed to be affected 10 pre-
cisely this manner, with the result tha'
the whole bulb gives forth light. Suct
electricians as Nicola Tesla and McFar
Ian Moore would not put the condition
of things into such simple words Mr.
Moore, indeed, saying, and very scien'
tlfcally. no doubt, that the whole thing
IS the result OF the current being rapid
Iy disrupted by magnetic held exterior
TO the evacuated space.
In fact, the whole problem OF ign
NAV be said to have become one OF vi
brations. Its solution, as stated, hai
been arrived at oy means OF electric
sparks thus made TO succeed one an
other rapidly In a vacuum. And aloni
these lines has II become a possibility
to conduct light through tubes, VIII
results destined TO effect the revolution
now on the eve OF accomplishment
Then we will, indeed. have beauti
ful lichtm exclaimed Nicola Tesla
How few of US realize the importance
of the cost of light on the lives o
people to-day. 1t is rot too much u
saw that when the coming changes ar
liuausurated our wheie nHRieipAl lif'