THE NEWEST LIGHT.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2576, 23 June 1881, Page 3

THE NEWEST LIGHT.

An ingenious Nevada machinist has invented an electric lantern, which will leave Edison in the cold. Tho lantern is of about the size and shape of an ordinary miner’s lantern, and may be readily carried in the band or on the arm. In the bottom is tho apparatus which produces the electricity that makes the light, all that is necessary is to wind up the apparatus at the side with a sort of clock key when light is wanted. The clockwork will run for six hours, but can be stopped instantly by touching a button. How the light is produced is the inventor’s secret. The amount of electricity re quired is so small as to be inappreciable. The secret of the whole thing is a fluid at the buttom of a flask, the well of which connects with the apparatus at the bottom of the lantern. The inventor says but three articles, and those very cheap, are used. They cost hut a trifle to begin with, are never consumed, and never deteriorate. There are neither platinium nor charcoal burners; indeed no burners at all. Tho light, which is of fifty candle power, is neither from flame nor from a substance heated to incandescence.