THE ELECTRIC LIGHT.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3105, 30 January 1879, Page 3

THE ELECTRIC LIGHT.

Tho electric light continues to excite great interest, and while yte await; the full reyelation of Mr Edison's plans, Tarious inrentors are busy asserting each his own particular claim. The discovery is attracting attention throughout Europe. At St. Petersburg a commission has been appointed to consider the expediency of lighting Cronatadt harbour by this new agency, and a municipal committee has the question-of the streets under investigation. In England, the last popular innovation is a game at football by the electric light. The Times has adopted the Eassieff light in its printing offices, where abundant light without great heat is very desirable. From its own account we learn that more than twenty of these lights can be worked from one machine. Six lights have been found sufficient to light the large room which contains tb.e Walter printing presses employed in producing the jjaper, and another large room in whiah expositors are ; engaged is about to be lighted by similar lamps, worked by the same dynamo-electrio machine., ":We consider,'' says. The Times, "theuse of the electio light in printing offices a great tl^st. of its fitness for general use." In to the projects of other metropolitan bodies, the Court 6£ Common Council is about to try the electric light in the fish-market at Billingsgate.