GAS SUPERSEDED.

Patea Mail, Volume III, Issue 304, 16 March 1878, Page 3

GAS SUPERSEDED.

The question "of electricity vermis gas' ! may be solved sooner than many may 'imagine. Once a great discovery or invention is perfected and applied in'one jplace/ifwill,' like the' telephone, speedily Tie reproduced all over the wbrld. The Tact that a very brilliant light could be by'electricity is not new. ‘But .the production of a cheap electric light ‘is netf. Inventors have been working; ■for this result for a quarter'Of a century. The ; results are now announced with a •'great deal 'of certainty, viz a light ‘much' superior To gas, both in volume : and brilliancy, free from all nauceous 1 'odours, perfectly safe, and much cheaper, been obtained, then the clays'of coal gas,. for house purpose at least, areTihrhbered, A ’’correspondent of the . London Globe ‘says that the cost, including the. running of a steam engine, is only lOd : sterling an hour for the production of a: Tight equal to 350 gas burners. If this Tight could be subdivided, it is affirmed ■ 'that.'the result wOuld be equal to the 'supply ‘of ordinary street gas at 114 ‘cents -per 1000 feet. , The greatest Triumph Vet attained with the elective light is in Paris, were the rates of insurance have been'reduced oh buildings in which this light is used. The next •great discovery will. probably be in the 'application of electricity as a motor. If ;’a cheap light, can be produced, than it follows that heat ‘can be generated cheaply. Not only can houses be heated by electricity, hilt heat applied to produce hot air, or the expansion of atmosphere will -probably result in a cheap motor which Can be applied to a thousand uses.