A VICTORIAN EDISON.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1925, 26 April 1880, Page 3

A VICTORIAN EDISON.

Victoria (writes the Melbourne correspondent of the "Geelong News of the Week) is to have the credit of producing another wonder in this age of marvels. A discovery has been made—not only made, but practically tested—which is likely to revolutionise our system of street and house illumination—to produce gas at a price which will make it absolutely cheaper than water, with a lighting power which more than quadruples the standard fixed by the new Act. The new gas, which affords a brilliant, smokeless, white light, burns with a steady flame, and is far Ruperior in appearance to the yellow and flickering article nightworkers now suffer by, and has the further advantage of requiring but little labor in the manufacture, and no coal. A gentleman resident in Bullarat narrowly escaped the opportunity of becoming a millionaire by sharing in the undertaking, but since then a company has been formed, with a large capital, to purchase the inventor's rights throughout the world. The calculations made indicate that the profits of the new venture are likely to prove something stupendous, while the practical and scientific tests to which the invention has been exposed seem to indicate that the hopes of the shareholders have justification. The process of manufacture is both simple and cheap, and although in England and America the cost of production will be less than in the colonies, there is little doubt but that we are on the eve of a domestic revolution which will render the electric light a superfluity.