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THREE GREAT INVENTORS.
oings in the Laboratories of Edi
son, Tesla and Moore.
it the Gas Companies Iieware — Great
improvements In Electric Fighting Are
Promised in the Near Future—Cheap
anil Effective Illumination.
[COPTRIGHT, 1890 ]
We are soon to have electric lights so
ieap that anyone can afford to have
(em. At least, this is the promise of
ree noted electricians who have been
irking on the problem for some time
bt. The fact that Thomas A. Edison
id Nikola Tesla are two of the three
[erred to gives strong assurance thi.t
! may look for a revolution in our
Stem of illumination in the near fli
fe. It begins to look as if the gas
gipanies would be distanced thistimi,
periments here. These rays open op
wonderful possibilities in the electrical
world, and may make it necessary for
ns to completely reconstruct the rindu
latory theory of light. Just think
where we are now! Photographing
through wood and metal, talking by
telephone a thousand miles away, tele
graphing tinder the ocean despite of
storm and tempest—why, one of these
days we shall perhaps see by electric
ity.”
Of course, it is idle to look for the im
proved incandescent lamp until Mr. Edi
son gets tired of his investigation of the
Itoentgcn rays. The truth is, when the
great electrician begins to experiment
in any one line lie sticks to his work as
close as a hen does to her nest, whe.n
she is hatching out a lot of eggs. He
has eyes and ears only for the subject
in hand, and nothing can take him
away from his work. He even dreams
-X I
pile the discovery of the new meth
#f producing acetylene, and will not
kble hereafter to manufacture light
| the million, as they have done in
; gone by.
[had occasion to pay a number of
to the laboratory of Mr. Edison
Llewellyn Park, N, J., within the
| month, in order to find out how he
progressing in his experiments
the wonderful Boentgen rays,
Ch seem to resj>ect neither sub
ce or shadow, but go through every
It. was on one of these t rips that
irned from Mr. Edison’s own lips
he had practically succeeded in
loving his incandescent lamp so
[ he could run 20 of them for each
-power used. This is a distinct
of 33 1-3 per cent., as at present
15 lamps can be run per horse
er.
[started out with ten incandescent
j>s per horse-power,” said the Wiz
“and after awhile succeeded in
png these up to such a state of
|ction as to string 15 of them on a
for each horse-power employed.
over his theories—that is, when he
takes time to sleep, for sometimes he
will continue right along in his lab
oratory for three days at a stretch
without shutting an eye.
“You will keep your carbon filament
in the improved incandescent lamp,
and not dispense with it as Tesla pro
poses to do?” I asked.
“Oh, yes,” he replied. “No need of
changing t.liat now. I had quite a time
finding it; I searched all over creation.
They are using cellulose now, but it
isn’t much cheaper than the Japanese
bamboo splints that I first used.”
“Then you think your latest improve
ments will cheapen electric lighting?”
I asked again.
“I don’t see how it can help it,” re
plied Mr. Edison. “If I can run 'JO
lamps where I now use 15, don’t you
see that there will be considerable
saving?” >
“Have you taken out your patents
yet?”
“No—nor shall I. I don’t believe in
getting things patented any more. It
doesn't protect you. The only safe way
- ./v-'7.'
I have practically succeeded in
king my incandescent lamp so
j can put 20 lamps where 1 could
|ly 13 before.”
■n you are not experimenting
ftheric or phosphorescent light
said.
replied Mr. Edison. “I believe
pe incandescent lamp can be iin
so that it will give as good light
[small a eost as anything in the
it. Besides. I don’t take any stock
pse grave-yard lights that some
dans are experimenting with.
Incandescent tamp sends out as
lud mellow a light as could be
led; it is quite adequate for all
cal purposes."
lulu you care to say just how you
lproved your new lamp?”
just yet. 1 have still some fin
f touches to make on it. You see.
rof. Roentgen made his wonder
eovery of the X rays, 1 dropped
thing in order to repeat the ex
is to keep the secret yourself as far as
possible.”
And the great electrician hereupon
began to experiment with a telephone,
in the hope of transmitting the Koent
gen rays by wire to some distance, just
as in the case of sound waves. As he.
did so, he added:
“Faraday could only turn the most
delicate needle at first with his elec
trical current; yet to-day an electrical
engine is hauling a train of 40 cars.
You must not despise the day of small
beginnings.”
Nikola Tesla is almost as prominent
a figure in the electrical world as the
“Wizard of Menlo Park.” He is the
nan who allowed 250.000 volts to pass
through his body, who discovered the
art of transmitting electricity without
a wire, and who has promised to make
sunshine as soon as he can safely care
for the 8.000.000 volts necessary for
that purpose. His laboratory on South
Fifth avenue was burned down a yea*
ago, and he lost a great many valuable
instruments for experimental purposes,
some of which can never be replaced.
This is why the world litis not heard
to much of Mr. Tesla during the past
year. Those of his friends who have
been permitted to witness his late ex
periments at the new laboratory on
East Houston street say that he has
made some remarkable discoveries
which will soon be announced.
I had a pleasant chat with Mr. Tesla
the other day, and learned from him
that he has about perfected his new
phosphorescent light, which will come
as near artificial daylight ns anything
yet attempted. There will be no fila
ment in the glass bulb; nevertheless, it
will glow with all the brilliancy of an
arc light. The current employed will
be of low voltage, but it will be changed
into one of high potential by induction
coils. In this way three improvements
will lie effected over the present in
candescent lamps—brighter illumina
tion, no deadly wires and cheaper cost.
Mr. Tesla is not yet ready to give to
the public the details of his wonclerfill
invention, but those who have seen the
new light, say tliat.it will work a revolu
tion in methods of illumination. Some
remarkable photographs have already
been obtained from it. It is stated that
the cdst. will be scarcely one-half of the
rates that at present prevail.
The third electrician who is grap
pling with the problem of cheap illu
mination is Dr. If. McFarlan Moore,
who claims to have solved the secret of
the firefly. Following close upon the
heels of .Roentgen rays, the discovery
promises to work a revolution in elec
tric illumination, and foreshadows an
era of one unbroken day.
Mr. Moore is comparatively un
known to fame. For several years
past he has been quietly at work in his
Newark laboratory—which, curiously
enough, is within a stone's throw of
Edison's old place—and success seems
at last to have crowned his efforts. He
calls the new kind of illumination
“ether lighting” for want of a better
name, and employs only the most sim
ple. apparatus to manufacture it. In
deed, like Roentgen’s rays, the wonder
is that some electrician has not before
this time hit upon Mr. Moore’s discov
ery. It is certainly as simple as it is
remarkable in the effect produced.
Not only is it the nearest approach to
the production of light without heat
that the world has yet seen, but the
whole illumination is obtained from an
ordinary current of low voltage.
There are no hairpin filaments in
Mr. Moore’s system, as with the incan
descent lamp, and the illumination
agent is distributed through pipes and
tubes, just as we now distribute water
and gas.
Mr. Moore's invention involves a
new principle in molecular vibration.
He separates the several divisions of
energy, and employs only the illumi
nating elements. He hopes to get as
much light with a one-volt current as
Tesla now does with a million volts.
In short, the new light promises to
turn things topsy-turvey. We are cer
tainly on the eve of a revolution in elec
tric lighting, if Tesla, Edison and
Moore are to be believed.
Mr. Moore's new light, owing to the
absence of heat, requires little power
to generate it, and can be produced
from a battery the size of that which
rings the front doorbell. In other
words an ordinary glass jar, contain
ing pieces of zinc and carbon immersed
in acid, will furnish a current sufficient
to produce a good illumination.
Mr. Moore's apparatus is not much
bigger than an ordinary-sized teacup,
and the little machine that breaks the
circuit and corresponds to the electric
bell is not bigger than one's finger.
I had occasion to visit Mr. Moore’s
laboratory the other day. Some of the
experiments I witnessed were beauti
ful, and the light was certainly as good
as one could wish. One experiment
struck me particularly. After we en
tered the dark room the inventor hand
ed me a long- glass tube, about as big as
a broom stick, and then ordered the
lights out, In a few seconds, streams
of light began playing through the
tube from one end to the other.
Of course I asked Mr. Moore to ex
plain.
“It is only a manifestation of elec
trical induction,” he replied, smiling.
“The current from the diminutive vi
brator is connected with a small piece
if tin on the ceiling, and the electric
waves pass through the intervening
air space to your body."
If what Mr. Moore says is true, the
possibilities of this one feature of the
new light are simply enormous. If,
instead of a piece of tin, metallic paint
were put on the walls or ceiling and
made a part of the circuit, t he same ef
fects would be produced. The tube be
comes a veritable stick of daylight. N'o
wires or connections are needed. All
that is necessary is a glass tube in
which the light can manifest itself. X'o
matches, no oil, no gas, no buttons to
press—all you need is a glass much like
a walking stick. This new light prom
ises to be a bonanza to a club man.
YY'hen be comes home from a “night
out,” he has only to point his walking
stick in the air in any direction, as
Franklin did with his lightning rod,
and the electric tire will come down
and illuminate the place. It doesn’t
matter which way the stick is pointed,
he will be sure to get iig'lit sufficient to
find his wav upstairs.
Neither of the inventions I have just
described have been placed on the mar
ket ns yet, but they are liable to make
their appearance almost any day,
Meanwhile the oil trusts, the acetylene
trusts and some of the big electric light
companies would do well to be on the
lookout for cheap illumination, for it
is bound to come. Three electrical ex
perts have said it, and it is greatly to
their credit. Perhaps we shall soon be
even bettor off than the people at the
North pole. They have daylight half
the year, whereas we are now promised
artificial daylight for every hour in
the twenty-four.
Pkaxcis Leox CintlSMAN.
SALVATION AND SENTIMENT.
How the Religious Army Restrains
Courtship Among Its Officers.
Engagement Blanks Instead of the Ring
Only Officers Need Apply -Always Leap
Year for Women Officials Who
Love Beneath Their Rank.
[copyright. 1S96.3
AHRIAGES of offi
cers in the Salva
tion Army have
not been numer
ous for some time,
and perhaps it is
because of the
laws which gov
ern that body.
The new field
book, lately is
sued, lays down
laws to govern
the affections of
indivdnals in
the army as if
hearts were ma
chines, and Cupid's pranks could be
regulated with a -word. The question
of how the parents of the individuals
feel about the matter is not taken at all
into consideration, and very little
thought is given to the feelings of the
lovers themselves so far as. the disci
In a case where an officer, male or fe
male. wishes to become engaged to an
ordinary soldier—for rank in theftalrar
tion Army is not caste—the same rule
of separation is observed, but the pri
vate must, rise from the ranks before
the marriage will be sanctioned. Thirf
provision is made that there may be
extraordinary efforts made by the pri
vate in doing good work and love will
find a way—for thus the marriage will
reflect honor upon the army.
If any officer should happen, as is
sometimes the case, to fall in love with
one outside the army and this one re
fuses to join, then he must cease to be
an officer and return to the ranks, dis
honored. One of flic precautions
against courting among the officers is
to pi ace a man and wife or two men
and their wives in command of every
corps.
If a female officer and a male private
wish to marry, then, be it leap year or
not, the woman must take the initia
tive. She must make the application
to headquarters, fill out the required
amount of blanks and do whatever she
can toward making her prospective
lord and master an officer.
“Jilting” in the Salvation Army is
looked upon with the severe disap
proval that it deserves, and any officer
found guilty of that offense will beat
once reduced ignominiously to the
ranks.
FOR THIS HE IS DISHONORED.
pllne of the army members js con
cerned.
The section of the rules and reputa
tions of the Salvation Army relatinp to
love, courtship and marriape among the
field officers is not generally known.
Such strict regulations toward the lit
tle god with the bow and darts exist
in this body that it would be little won
der if but a small amount of romantic
feeling entered into the matter of be
ing engaged and married.
It is only to the officers of the army,
however, that these rules apply; the
rank and file may make love and marry
as they see fit, provided they limit the
number of their marriages to one. If
the susceptible heart, of a male officer
becomes stirred with the tender passion
of love, and he ardently desires to be
come one with the fair lady of his
affections, he does not drop at once on
the, left, knee and ask her to allow her
soul to join with his, nor does he then
slip on the engagement ring while she
prettily blushes. Neither does he timidly
approach him whom he fain would call
father, declaring that life without
“her” is of no account at all.
No; he goes to the division officer
and briskly asks for a printed engage
ment application blank. He fills this
“Any breaking- of an engagement,”
the. field book ordains, “must be at
once reported to the division officer,
and any officer found guilty of shame
less and heart-breaking- jilting will be
reduced to the ranks. Courting means,
more or less, a division of feeling, neces
sarily interfering in some measure with i
the discharge of duty, and is, there- i
fore, deprecated. Officers must, not l>e
allowed to carry on any courtship in
the town in which they are stationed.”
It may not be generally known, but
those interested in the army's work are
not all of the class among which it :
labors. In many cities — Philadelphia. I
notably—society women become honor- I
ary members and lend more than finan
cial aid to the work done by these sin
cere hard workers.
Suicides in Germany.
In point of suicides, both as to number
and manner of execution, Germany still
leads. The other day two young Berl in
ers, both consumptives and tired of life,
met in a train by accident. They were
l>oth on the way to a deep, smooth lake
in the vicinity, where they meant to
drown themselves. One had confided
his purpose to the other and together
they carried out their purpose. But a I
SWEETHEARTS AKE NOT ALT-OWED TO COURT IN THE SAME TOWN.
out., stating- all he knows about the
(air one, unci hands it back to the di-'
vision officer, who in turn forwards it
to the national headquarters.
Officers may not marry without a
year’s separation from their chosen life
partners, and if the two favorites in
terested both live in the same town
the higher officer either refuses them
permission to become engaged or re
quires one of the young people to go to
another city. This is done to prevent
the time-absorbing diversion of court
ing among the officers when they should
be attending to business. Engage
ments, as well, must last one year be
fore a commander will give his sanc
tion to a marriage. Ample time is given
for the affections to nicely cool, if they
be fickle, ox-, if it be. strong, true love,
to grow more ardent than ever.
queerer suicide still was that, of a Ber
lin stock gambler in a hotel in Vege
sack, near Bremen. He had lost his
money on ’change, and notified his
brother in Hamburg of his intention to
kill himself. When the brother ar
rived he. found the other dead, and be
side his bed lay all the papers and let
ters giving complete information as to
his losses. The owner of the hotel at
the same hour received a registered let
ter from his dead guest. The letter had
been mailed in Berlin the night before,
and it told the bon if nee that the Ham
burg brother would pay all damage,
which the brother did.—Chicago
Iieeord.
Five-sixths of the men at Oxford
and Cambridge universities are tee
totalers.
The f hnrrh.
The church is not a mere teacher of
frinciples; she ia a guide and mother.
he has our salvation at heart; and to
effect this she comes down to smallest
things, having solely in view our needs
—Archbishop Ireland, Catholic, St!
Paul, Minn.
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“Professor,” snid a graduate, trying to
be pathetic at parting, r‘I ain indebted to
you for all I know. ” “Pray do not mention
such a trifle,” was the reply.
True happiness ne’er entered an eve
true happiness resides in things unseen.—
Young.
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