Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-07-02
'YS HE HAS GOT IT.
pess 2 ENTHUSIASTIC OVER HIS NEW
 LAMP.

..,ox Per Candle Pswer-Happy ss sua Over . New Toy.
 ,as A. Edison has had the new
 ;n readiness for some time, but
 ut i4 rsady to show it until he had l,stsd aOs the accessories.
 g's.u rrseted a New York Herald re- Pleasantly the other day and As AgsaWvell, I'ye get it. ''
 NJ, he led the way into the room :s the X ray experiments have been srotod Here was a transformation. ~alls and the ceiling of the room covered with light colored paper, aer to bring out the effect of the N He closed the door, and we were yptian darkness till Edison shout
 "On!,' His assistant in the next on the current, and the new shone ont. suspended in the center
 room.
 a light was beautiful one. clear ghite, and, while Mir. Edison said was only s or 4 candle power, the light was turned on and off lernated with the 18 candle pow .sndescent lamp, there was not
 difference between them in illu- s=ing power.
 new lamp is simply a Crookes the usual shape, about 5 inches
 md inches in diameter. The rity of the light is in the interior bulb. When it is being made,
 thimbleful of crystals of new nee is introduced into the bulb, he latter is slowly rotated in an heat just short of the melting d the glass. The result is that the l of this new substance are dis pd evenly all over the interior of
 lb and are fused by the high heat y form coating on the inside.
 Edison was asked what this new
 ice was. and he laid his finger on
 le of his nose, and. with quiz
 ook, replied: Don't you wish
 sw? But l am not going to tell Lei these other fellows that know
 h ind out what it is if they can. '
 hat he would say was that it was ral mineral, very abundant and heap, and that it possessed nearly tines the fiuoreseent properties of ngstate of calcium. which was is discovery of the wizard.
 'w do you expect to get greater st is very simple, !" he replied; at you have to do is to increase 3 of the bulb and you get the amount of light. The fact is that succeeded in imprisoning the X I the bulbs and there are none of hat escape. l have tested very lly for their presence outside of slbs and there are none there. D
 Edison then said that the only further to do was to work out the m of commercial values and to me some of the difficulties in pro- |l the light.
 said: Why, this thing is star svelation i'll the wonderful econ-
 energy. When first reached the .l brought out my ammeter and stmeter to test the electrical en- aquired, and I was dumfounded Sthe calculation was finished at the sous saving. l was sure that there 'me mistake about the matter and Nle meters were wrong. I got Hset and then 2 third, and still snlts agreed, and I realized what |fmous economizer of energy this mp was.
 ast were the figures?' Sund that the lamp of S1a or 4 AIpower, he replied, figured up s1gy consumption of only 38 foot per candle power, while it is Hown that the .incandescent lamp used requires about 1850 foot aenergy per candle power. Put it sswsy. Taking ss. 900 foot pounds horse power and dividing by 3s { one horse power equal to S46 of lamps. y
 :are you tried them in multiple arc l?'
 A and they work as we'll or better ingly, and 70 that part of the n is solved. i"
 sye you succeeded in getting the direct from the current and with
 intervention of the Ruhmkorff T; that has not yet been done. ee, the conditions are peculiar. have in this induced current an 'ty of 40, 900 or 30, 900 volts, with 9perage that is practically nom- So far mo one has yet been able shis without the Ruhmkorf coil 'e other form of the induced cur s5ut l am at work on new trans. which l have great hopes of, that, essful. will accomplish this very and then we shall be able to get Bays direct from the main cur lat lines are you new working
 ll, ill addition to this transform
 working at the tubes to increase
 urance tests and to simplify the sAnd bring the matter into com-
 shape. D
 long is rhat going to take?'' .