GOOD-BYE TO GAS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 284, 7 December 1878, Page 5

GOOD-BYE TO GAS.

New York, October 12 —The alarm among the English gas companies and the panic in their stocks, ou account; of Edison's last invention in electric lights, are not without good cause. America's great inventor ha3, in truth, solved the problem which for years has puzzled the ablest electricians of the age. He has successfully divided the electric light, and made it, for illuminating purposes, as far superior (o gas as gas is . to the candle of the past. His marvellous invention gives a mini, soft, yet brilliant light, pleasing to the eye, clear, steady, and without blemish, and at a cost less than one-third of that required for gas. Those who have seen the inventiqn pronounce it to be wonderful. Already a company has beau formed, composed of a number of wealthy capitalists, and Mr Edison's lawyers are engaged in completing the final arrangements for the legal transfer. Before long, therefore, the work of introduction wiil begin. The patents for the United States have only just beon < granted, while those for the various countries of Europe have not yet been obtained. To-day the professor's solicitors send by steamer the necessary documents to their London a»ent for the procurement of the British letters patent. The French and other patents will be applied for simultaneously with the British one. When word is cabled to Mr Edison that the patents; have been granted, he will throw his own invention open to the public gaze, but until then he declines to make known its details, his recent controversy with. Professor Hughes over the alleged ■ steeling of the telephone having made him cautious. ■■ A Herald reporter learned yesterday the system proposed to be . adopted after the patents are all granted. , First, '■ the Professor will light up all the ! houses in Menlo Park gratis, and, from his laboratory, watch the light's ,progress from night to night. When all is in reudiness for general introduction, central stations will, prhbably, be established throughout New York city, each BtatioD controlling a territory , of, : perhaps, a radius of ha!f-a-cnile. In the central stations will be the magoetoelectric generating machines run by engines. Wires will then be run in iron pipes underground, after the macner of gas pipes, connecting with dwellings, stores, theatres, and other places to be lighted. The gas-fixtures at present used, instead of being removed will be uiilisedM&giQcaae the wire. In the place of will be the invention, aud IsHHraHpi'l be used to register CLlfffifflfflP- e ' oc " tricity consumed. ■ 'i@Waijj|f '» not yet determined upon. SSHSS 1 ' ' s to be of tbe bat-wing, Ult|jH|wHb power character. To light iSHlßfpring is touched, and inetantl&H|^Hctricity does it work. The B S§§§JB»'ght can be regulated in the ffißes. can that from gas* . To TnfflSfflrann Hghf. \ the spring is &gainjpHnE« and in-; etantly all ia darkinH matches : being ua6d, and tbeigraSHib flam?, j

all the dangers incident to the uao of gas are obviated. The light gives out no heat. It is simply a pure white light, made dim or brilliant at tho fancy ot the person usiog it.