Show I SALT SET LAKE JOINS EDISON IN DAY Thirty seventh Anniversary o of Invention o of Electric Light Will Be Observed Toda Today Today- Is Edison da day observed throughout the country countr as the thirty thirty- seventh anniversary of or the appearance of oC the first small electric lamp In Invented invented In- In vented h by Thomas A A. A Edison after other other oth oth- er cr great groat minds cf cC the thc countr country had given up the tho proposition and declared It Im- Im possible Tho The electrical Industry has set aside October 21 n 1 as Edison d day y in honor of oC Mr l' l Edison ilon and his achievements In perfecting the incandescent electric lamp from which Invention has come the multitude df Of systems of ot electric lighting now In use throughout the we world In this connection Salt SnIt Lakers will learn with a good deal of ot Interest that in tho milestones which mark the progress progress proF- proF re ress s of electrIc illumination Salt Lake itself fI figures ures more or le less s prominently prominent For Fer Instance London England and Salt Lake were illuminated by electricity for the first time in the tho history of or either cither cit city on the same night Salt Lake L. was the tho third third city city in the United States to have an electric street railway system Nashville Tenn being first Omaha second and Salt Lake third In his lily experiments to perfect an In Incandescent Incandescent incandescent In- In candescent lamp Mr I Edison 1 cotton cot cot- ton threads bits of paper linen and even cn hair hall but none of them were ere satisfactory sat sat- sometimes the they m merely rel flashed light for a n second or twosome twosome- times the they lasted lon longer or but always alwa's they fell apart and ended the test Then the great reat inventor in took a few fibers I from flom a palm leaf lenC fan and tried those and when the current was turned on the lamp glowed lo with a strong light After Arter 1830 1880 the growth of or electric lighting was yer very rapid and lamp costs were pre materially reduced In 1891 tho the cellulose process of or making lamps was Introduced and after 1893 1393 electric lamp filaments of ba bamboo oo were wore no longer used Then came the introduction of ot metal but it was Wl not until the metal tantalum was tried out In 1901 that the possibilities of or the unknown metals became be became became be- be came apparent A few years ears later the first tantalum lamps were made and were almost as quickly quick superseded b by the tungsten lamp Introduced In 1907 Since then thon numerous Improvements an and discoveries In Incandescent lighting I have havo been produced The famous exhibition of Edison's complete electric lighting system took tok place early In December 1879 when his laboratory r grounds rounds Were nero Illuminated by lamps Visitors came from Crom all parts of or the country to see this lightIng lighting lighting light light- ing system one of or the wonders of tho the day dar Hero In Salt Lake toda today Edison da day will be observed as It Is b being doneall done doneall doneall all ever the tho country countr with special displays displays dis dis- plays plas of or Edison lamps and tho the like The Tho Utah Power Light company and other electrical Interests of or the th city have In Installed installed In- In stalled various arlous attractions as marks of or honor and respect to the tho wizard of the electrical 1 Ind Industry us try |