The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-10-28
WILL RIVAL The
RAYS OF THE sun
Greatest Discovery of the
Age Made in Salt Lake.
LIGHT MORE INTENSE
THAN ELECTRICITY
Prominent Capitalists of this
City Are Backing Invention.

SdIJ Lake mat means one OF the great
est revolutions ever known in the in
dustriaI world. This is the production
Of light, heat and power at a cost so
low that electricity, gas, coal and water
Will be driven from the field where they
are brought into direct competition
with this new factor. And like all the
other great discoveries n the world OF
science this one is very simple
For seven months past there have
been experiments going on in this city
to demonstrate the praCyicabiliLy OF \.
discovery that an eccentric man had
made by which he claimed 70 be able
10 furnish light, heat and power at
very low cost and by very simple
contrivanCe, by generating gas from
coal oil. After a time Judge T. r. col
born NJ. H Walker and W A Neidon
became interested in the matter and
d result Of this, one OF the grea lest
discoveries of the age has been pat
ented and in a few weeks VIII be given
To the world.
The men named above. two Of whom
at least Will be recognized as among
the most conservative business men Of
the city were not convinced that TINS
was a good thing until after exhaustive
demOnsrraC tons had been made now
they are firm in the opinion that they
have discovery whose value If stated
IN dollars would SCagger the magma
ton of ordinary people and subject
those interested to ridiCule- Most Of
the experiments made in this city dur
ing the past seven months have been
in the realm of light as this IS the
greatest demand would be found.
Every man, woman and child in the
civilized world must have light SO that
the demand has no limit
Light Is Intense.
Il has been demonstrated by actual
experiments and tests in Salt Lake that
by this new process a T0O-candIe power
light can be produced, an ordinary
CRATE fire and a four horse power en-
CINE can all be run for seven and one
half hours with one pint of coal oil
The light that Is thus produced is so
intense that no person can look at It
with the naked eye When the above
statements were made by the discover
er of the secret he was laughed az by
the men to whom the matter was pre-
scented, but they were convinced by
actual demonstrations until they had
no more to say, and are now backing
the inventor with their capital and in
duence.
This discovery has been talked about
for some time past by the people in
the eastern part of the city, where the
experiments were made, but all the
talk has been vague and indefinite.
Now IL is no longer a secret and some
of the wonders of the discovery have
experiments was to set the little lamp.
that could almost be carried in q coat
pocket, in the window of Judge Col
born's home in POppertOn and put back
of il a headlight reflector BY this
means so intense a light was produced
that good sized print could be read by
it al the university buildings, 2,300 feet
away When turned on Judge Kings
home, 800 feet distant. fine print could
be read II makes a light as bright as
the MONDAY sun and makes any Ordi-
nary light look dark and smudgy.
These experiments were made with a
small hand lamp
All the tests that would present
themselves to the minds of practical
men have been applied to This new
light and ii has stood them all As To
the cost. IL is SO low that no other light
known can compete with it. 4 T0d-cau-
die power light can be run a the cost
Of a half a cent per hour and this
would make the lighting Of an ordinary
house SO infnitesimaIly small that il
would be difficult 10 calculate the cost.
Is Very Simple.
The contrivance is simplicity itself
It consists of forcing the gas from coal
oil from a tank by the pressure ofsair
through a small tube and burning IL
as IL energies with a very simple
burner The secret is in the transfer
nation that the gas goes through as
it passes through the tube. and OF
course LllS secret VIII never gwen
TO the public. The tube used in the ex-
periments in this city was hollow
copper wire, the opening being one
SiNty-fOUrJh Of an inch in diameter.
about the diane ,.. If . brass pin.
It is unde So at this discovery
has already ner.. lpIetely protected
by patents md CEs-- il IS now pracri-
caliy in the hands of the three salt
LakerS named above. and 10 them iC
means a tremendous fortune. Judge
I'll e.
the east TO secure patents on other
phases of the discovery TO shut out all
possibility of an infringement from any
direction.
The Salt Lake men met the inventor
by accident. He is very eccentric and
has made many discoveries before from
which he has received immense sums Of
money, but II is all gone now. His
name could not be obtained yesterday:
those interested in the enterprise are
naturally keeping him out of the way
until everything is fixed concerning the
patents and the business arrangements.
This VIII be but a few days now at the
farthest.
A Bewndering Invention
When the possibilities of this discov-
cry are considered the mind Is Devil
dered. The inventor is said to know
more about gas than Edison knows
about electricity. He has made II his
life study His secret now is that he
utilizes all that has been heretofore
wasted in light and heat from gas: by
his latest discovery a perfect cOmbuS-
tion is obtained; with his light there is
absolutely no smoke, 40 SOOC-every-
thing is completely burned mp one OF
the experiments tried was to hold a fine
china plate over the blaze until It was
hot enough to boil water. When re-
moved the plate was found to be per
fectly clean on the bottom, and when
wiped with silk handkerchief not a
particle OF snuGge could be discovered
Very little was attempted here as 20
the production Of heat or power, but il
is the firm conviction of the inventor
and those interested with him that II
has a wonderful field here also. With a
little machine that will not weigh more
than sixty pounds IL is said that an
automobile can be run from here To
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