MORE LIGHT.

Dunstan Times, Issue 823, 25 January 1878, Page 3

MORE LIGHT.

Referring to a lato invention in lighting, a correspondent of the San Francisco Call says “Among other battles at which one assists this moment in France is that between electric candles and gaslight. I visited this peculiar candle manufactory, in the Avenue dos Villiers, the director of which is a Russian engineer and also the inventor, M. Jehlockoff. Now, as Voltaire observed, light comes from the north. The laboratory is hung with pictures and colored stuffs, which can ho as easily distinguished in their shades as if in full noonday. The candles have the same ratio to gas and oil lamps as sun to moonlight. The inventor poured some glasses of water on the flame of his dips, but they burned away'all the same. They emit no smoke, and consequently cannot blacken objects, nor any heat—3so times less than an ordinary candle—hence books will not fall out of their bindings, nor tanestry turn into black snuff. There can be no (ire, no explosions, and the light can be laid on some three- to fifteen times cheaper than gas or oil light. The light docs not tremble or twinkle much, and none at all if it passes through a globe slightly opaque. The candle is composed of two cylindrical sticks of charcoal, separated by a preparation of sand, ground glass, and kaolin ; a magneto-electro machine furnishes the current which flows from one point to the other of the charcoal rods. Each candle burns three hours, and the extinction of one lights np another. We are more than on the eve of a great discovery ; but as the proof of the pudding is in the eating, the invention will soon ho tested, as the circus, the Louvre drapery shop, an 1 the railway termini are to he illuminated by the new process. It will never be accepted by ladies for a ball room, as, unlike charity, it will not cover a multitude of sins.