EDISON’S NEW ELECTRIC LIGHT.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2128, 17 January 1880, Page 3

EDISON’S NEW ELECTRIC LIGHT.

The “New York Herald of Dec. 21, devotes a page' to i “ Edisbii’s : Triumph in Electric ■iQumination,’’, giving a full and accurate account of his work from its Inception to ’its;.e^hipletiqn, r ;mth, illustrktbd diagrams*. says -r-MThe first public' ’exhibitidSffpr Edison’s;long-looked focfelectric light takes t place on*; Ne.w Year’s Eve, fiat! Menlo Park, , ou, .which occasion th^t, {dace will be illuminated with the. ightl The hew. light, incredible as it may appbar, is produced from a little piece Of 'paper,‘ 'that 1 a : breath wbuid’ blow away. Through this lit tie; strip of paper, is passed, an electric currant, and tne result is a bright,: .beautiful, mellow, light. “But paper* instantly burns, even under the trifling light of a tallow candle,” exclaims the sceptic “ and how, then, can it withstand 'the fierce heat of an electric .current?” Yery true; but Edison makes the little piece of paper* more infusable than* platinum, more durable than and this involves no complicated })fives£i The paper is merely baked in an. oven I until all its elements have passed away 1 except its carbon framework. The, latter is then, placed in a glass globe connected with wires leading to an electricity-producing machine, and the air is exhausted from the globe. Then the apparatus is ready to give’ out a light that produces no, deleterious gases, no smoke, no offensive odours-—a.light without flame, without dainger) requiring no matches to ignite, giving out but little heat, vitiating 1 ho. air, and free from all flickering ;,a light that is a little globe of sunshine. And this light, the inventor claims,. can be . produced cheaper than that from the" cheapest oil. The inventor finds that the electricity can : be regulated, with entire reliability, at a central station, just as the pressure of gas is now regulated. The entire cost ofcbnstructing the lamp is not more than 5 25 'cents.