Show I THE EKISOK LAMP A Suit in Which It II Shown That He Did Not Invent IL BOSTON Jan 23In the United States circuit court today in the case of the Edison Ed-ison Electric Lighting company restraining restrain-ing the Beacon Lamp company of this city from manufacturing incandescent lamps as an alkged infringement of Ed inons patent the Beacon company filed about thirty affidavits alleging thai the incandescent lamp was not invented by Edison in 1879 as alleged but by a German Ger-man American named Henry Gobel Affidavits Affi-davits show that Gobel after having experimented ex-perimented for several years finally devised de-vised somewhat earlier than 1860 substantially sub-stantially the form of incandescent lamps now in use and on which Edison claims a patent The use of this lamp was necessarily neces-sarily limited from the fact that dynamos were not then invented but Gobel made many of these lamps thus anticipating the Edison lamp and accordingly Ed isons patent is invalid |