The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-03-01

use that many others that are now emf
nently successful
Mr. Hewitt's inventions are protected
by fifteen patents, held for the whole
world by the Cooper Hewitt Company,
in which Mr.. Westinghouse is the larg-
est stockholder.
At present the new contrivances are
being made in workshop on the ground
floor of the Madison Square Garden build
ing. which is lit up by the mercury yapor
lamps.
No women are employed in the Hewitt
workshop, and ii is safe to say that
none could be hired to stay in the room
ten minutes.
The most beautiful woman in New York
would become hideous fright under the
rays of Hewitt lamp. 1t sends out no
red rays. and as a result produces most
CHASTITY effect.
The human flesh loses its flesh tints;
the reddest lips become a livid blue and
the face and hands turn purplish-yel-
low, with dark-blue blotches.
The effect is as weird as if the corpses
ir a morgue suddenly sat up and talked
and acted If they were still alive If
man wishes to know how he'll look
when he is dead all he has to do is to
study his face in a looking-glass under
the ray of Hewitt lamp.
Under this magic light oak furniture
appears light green and brown wallpa-
per becomes gray. The whole color
scheme of the universe is upset by the
rays which Mr. Hewitt has discovered
g liCbf &c fad no
all that is necessary is TO cover the lamp
with red silk, colored with rhodamin dye
The rays at once lose their CHASTITY eff
feet and are still more brilliant than the
rays from an Edison lamp.
In his Investigations with different va
pors, Mr.. Hewitt has discovered all man
ner of strange lights, some of which he
may introduce to the public later.
His main idea at present is to bring
the benefits of electricity within the
reach of the poorest. My object" said
he. is to make a cheap light for the
people"
Another extraordinary fact about the
new light is that it practically casts no
shadow. 1t seems to slip on all sides of
an object and to dodge around corners
Il
lers, engravers, draughtsmen. etc. who
are obliged to "see around their work. ."
Red rays are the most firing to the
eye and consequently the Mercury Lamp
is a boon to all hand-workers who don't
care how corpse-like they look. But it
would certainly never prove satisfactory
in department store or an ARTISTS
studio.
1t is the most perfect light discovered
for Photographic purposes. When Lord
Kelvin was in this country last spring he
and Mr.. Hewitt posed for their photo
graphs standing by side under the light
OF one of the new lamps
Nothing that Lord Kelvin saw in Amer
lea interested him so much as these
weird illuminators. In an interview to
the World when leaving, he said:
What has attracted me most is the
work of Mr. Peter Cooper Hewitt with
his vacuum lamps. These lamps are to
me very wonderful, for l think they con-
tain the germs of very important in
dustrial development"
These lamps can be attached to any
ordinary wiring and for lighthouses,
tunnels, factories, etc, are without an
equal for cheapness or brilliancy.
The Static Converter is a small globe
one foot in diameter. and its work is to
change an alternating into direct cur
rent of electricity.
To use Mr. Hewitt's own illustration,
il acts like a check valve in water
pipe permitting the current of electric
ity TO pass in one direction only.
ct
longer necessary for conveying power or
charging the batteries of automobiles,
and consequently should be a great slim
illus to long -distance automobile trips.
Since his graduation from Columbia Mr..
Hewitt has perfected several useful in
ventions. The most Important of them
are:
"a 4 glue stock cutter.
(2) a glue clarifier
90 A fish hatchery.
"a A bicycle tire road wagon.
Besides his daily work in his sky-par-
lor laboratory. the millionaire inventor
finds time to attend TO his numerous So
cal duties.
But like his fellow millionaire and fell
Iow-inventor. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Mr..
Hewitt derives much more pleasure from
his inventions than from his wealth or
social privileges.
II was his grandfather, Peter Cooper,
who in 1880 made the first American To-
conotive-the famous old engine with
the eun-barrel boiler-and it is the am
bition Of Mr. Peter Cooper Hewitt 10
attain eminence not by his inherited mil
lions. but by equalling his father and
grandfather in a career of social service.