The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-04
EDIsoN's NEW LAMP.
His New Rays Light Explained.
Cheaper Than Other Lights.
From ID New York Herald.

From the New York Herald.
Thomas A. Edison has consented to lift
the veil of mystery that has surrounded
his new lamp. and yesterday afternoon
exhibited it. lie has had the new lamp
in readiness for some time, but was not
ready to show it until he had completed
the accessories.
He greeted me pleasantly when I en-
tered MS den yesterday, and said: well,
Then he led the way into the room
where the N-ray experiments have been
conducted. Here was q transformation.
The walls and the ceiling of the room
were covered with light colored paper,
in order to bring out the effect OF the
light. He closed the door ana we We're
in Egyptian darkness til Edison shouted
out, on" His assistant in the next room
turned on the current, and the new lamp
shone out suspended in the center OF
the room.
ana white, and, while Mr. Edison said
that it was only three and one-half or
four candle power, yet as the Ight was
turned on and off and alternated with
the sixteen candle power incaudescent
lamp, 1 could not see much difference
between them i'm Illuminating power.
The new lamp is simply a CroOkes tube
of the usual shape, about five inches long
and two inches in diameter. The pecu-
liarity of the light is In the interior of
the bulb. When it is being made about
a thimbleful Of crystals of a new substance
is introduced into the bulb and the latter
is slowly rotated in an intense heat Just
short al the melting point of the glass
The result is that the CRYSTALS of this new
substance are distributed evenly all over
fbe interior of the bulb and are fused
bv the high heat till they form a coating
efl ovar no inside firmly adberent
9sirad MIR r7iison ygbSf mis- new sinh
stance vas ana he lad his finger on one
I9S Oh s t35e on I Won Wis Wish vol knew
- ~, yoi er0f1er to zen vof1 LET those
other Fellows fhat know So much find out
if thew cam
All fbat he yvouId saw was that IT was a
ma f1iraI mineral verv a abundant and Verv
cheap. and that it possessed nearly three
ti1SeF fbe A,,orasean+ nronerties of the
tlInc,stata of "a Icium which was also the
djscGvery Of the Wizard"
ssITo1y d0 Won exnect TO get greater
1fg5f 81 asked
s3.TTybat a. ,,er1; sinnle" he replied: "au
ina ma you tba n9 Nm 70 and vou get fbe Larger
aToo,Int Of ught. The fact Is that I have
~ blnbl a. ana Hero are none of them
tbe+ oscena T have tested verv carefully
for their presence outside of the blubs,
and there are none there"
Mr. poisson Then said that the only
+bino flirtber to do was to work out the
nrobieno Of commercial values and to
6vercone some of the difficulties in pro-
ducing the LIGHT
he Said. "Whv this thing is a startling
revelation in the wonderful economy Of
energy. When I first reached the result
broli9ht out nv ammeter and my volt
meter TO test the electrical energy re-
ouired. and / was dumbfounded when the
calculation was finished, at the enormous
saving. [ was sure that there was some
MISTAKE about the matter and that the
meters were wrong ! got q second set
and then a third and still the results
agreed and / realized what an enormous
y was" ''-'-''
'eWhat were the figures?' I asked.
"T found that the lamp of three and
half and four candle power he replied,
sfgured up an energy consumption Of
only thirtv-nine foot pounds per candle
power while it is well known that the
incandescent lamp as now used requires
about $50 foot pounds energy per candle
power Put ii another way. Taking $1,000
foot pounds as the horse power ana di-
viding by 80 we find one horse power
equal to gi6 of these lamps.
stHave you tried them in multiple arc
circuits?''
yes. and they work as well or better
than singly, and so that part Of the pro-
HEM is solved"
"Have you succeeded IN getting the <
RAYS direct from the current and without
HE intervention of the Ruhmkorn cOil2
see. the conditions are peculiar. Here. l
have m TINS ln9uceG an ~ ts
OF 4o'VVO OF 90 ~ ~ 7,,ti g; FAR no one