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Show 1 " Salt Lake Han Repairs Liht Glebes Invention Means Enercous Saving Burned Out Wires Are Reconstructed t WM. J. lvTDONALD S1 - t , Patented Device Makes It Possible to Rejoin Ends of Broken Filaments ; and Restore Globes to Use j r j y a. J. HOSCNBLUM. With th' peculiar detachment' of the artist and yet with the firm conviction of the buelneee man. Wll-llam Wll-llam J. McDonald, mechanical en-' gtneer and former Csnsdlsn Army officer, with a myriad of varied slsed electric light bulbs before him on the table at his horns. 111 Del--msr avenae. explained, as complets-; ly as lnvntlv discretion would ' allow him, the process that will, repair. In th flash of a second, a t burnt-out electric lamp and make i It ae good as new. ' "8es this lsmpT" hs asked, hold- Ing up a loD-watt globs with tbs attituds of a gleeful magician. - "Tea" tha response of curious i credu lance. - - ' J "It was thrown a war. A moat wsstsful thing to do, I .amps UksJ this ara cull ,expnslv After 4 they ars burned out thsy csn bs . repaired Ilka moat other things st a very smsll oost." The practl-1 eel slds of bis nstnre came into j play for a moment, then he reverted i ta the crestlvs. "Pes my name en-1 i f ; ! 7 LJ .- afj '. After tha dmaa hi wonderment faded efrom mind, a aingle word emme forth to ei plain bow tha broken brok-en anda of a filament on tha Inalde 'of an electric bulb could ba Joined i together without touching1 them merely by paaalng a currant through them "electro-magnet lara. AVINO OF MILLION - "PilMly.1 tha Inventor waa good enough to reepond. "And thle ona hi a meana a aavlng of mllllona and mllllona of dollar to tha public all over tha world If 1 can make tha right arrangementa on patent right a, which are now pending." Mr. McDonald haa proved tha efficiency ef-ficiency rf hie procaaa, not by wldeapread demonetration, bat eec-rotly, eec-rotly, by repairing burned -out lam pa that hav bean marked aa a meana of Identification by elec-trlrat elec-trlrat experta who ara in l created In the diecovery. Ma haa conferred with many peraona and anpecta to make hia headquartera In Chicago after hia acheme haa made head-way. head-way. 1 Onca mora he reverted to tha practical value of tha plan. Mr. McDonald Mc-Donald ew itched on lam pa that Ha graven on tha wnita aturx oa tna , , Ina'de or t kit lampr - , "Tea.- "Then you cannot deny that 1 1 hava been on tha inaide of thlaj lamp "Of course not, creduloua euri-oeiiy euri-oeiiy in reaponae. BASE REMOVED. - Tha Inventor continued. To revivify re-vivify tha light that failed." In thla rasa, ha had had to remove ehe baaa of the globe, and, wltn -certain Instrumenta" like tha myatei-loua myatei-loua prongs of a physician, ona would Judre, mend tha delicate wlrea a that they would again throw off light. "But," ha explained. "It !a nat only In exceptional caaeei tnac 1 hava to get on tba Inaide of a globe. Eighty per rant of caat-off globee can ba put Into working order, and ia moat caeca. It ta dona by paaalng a caHam current through the burned out globe. To paaa a current through a burned out globe aouhded a great aal like taking a eruUe on an empty ocean. Of couree ona could not but aak, "Howr "That la tha quaation. came Mc-Tfon Mc-Tfon aid e retort In Hamlet falec 1 1 o. but remained In th aervlce until 121. Ha was ona of the sixteen survivors sur-vivors of til original 170 that compoaed the famous Princess 1'a -' trlcla's Canadian light Infantry, known aa the Princess Pat regiment, regi-ment, which was almost completely wiped out in the first battle of the Mama. Among tha medals thst grace hia habitat ara tha military cross, ths croix de guerr and the Mons stsr; also ths victory, general gen-eral service -and king's medal. During tha paet two years Mr. : McDonald has been employed aa; engineer at th now D. R. U. power plant.' AnA all through these i twelve year th thought of thou-j aand of lctrlo lamp being! thrown away aa rubbish bothered j him. Now his dream Is. ha says, J on tha road to realisation. J And as tha aharp eyes of ths I slectrical wizard glistened la his! own light, ons wondered wher his lshoratory was. I "My laboratory," h said, "Is In my head. 1 carry It with me." i bad aalvagrd. A bright light en-susd, en-susd, and one wss led to think that If the worn-out lamps of "the great white war" alone could be aalvaged In this msnner. as Mr. McDonald aaya they will say tremendous sav-I sav-I Ing there alert weald be rffeoUd. ' to say nethftig of th extremely hlgh-notenti! sight of th moving mov-ing picture atudloe,,. that, hourly, are burned out and cost away, and finally, the, countless bulbs thst ars heaved Into the rubbish by the ordinary or-dinary light-us.ng public. WILC AVI HALF. ' Mr. McDonald's Invention will save, he estimates conservatively. & per cent of the overhead expense ex-pense of electrlo lighting, and nrnbabty more than that, be any "The average bulb, which coata 4 cents, can be repaired In the flash of a second." he ndded. "so it (Is certainly worth while, as ths repair in this cas would coat but a few rant. All th lights that I am burning here." hs sxplalnd. "were rest aalds jwo years ago as being of no fanner use. I flved them up and they hava been burning burn-ing ever since." i That raised the question of how long Mr. McDonald has been work-It, work-It, g oa hie process. "Th way of th transgressor Is hard." hs said. "The Idea first struck ms about twslva years ago. But after I was struck by a shell In Franca T dldnt riave much capacity ca-pacity to think about such things as electric lights." He laughed. Mr. McDonald's Ufa shows a decided persistence toward things mechanical. Hs wss born It years ago st Ball Ground, near Atlanta. Da. He la proud of the fact that be never attended erhool. hut, traveling around the world, learned to speak Span,h, German. French and Italian. "I never had the patlenoa for school," ha declared. "I wanted ta get .at gad learn something." SIRVES WITH CANADIANS. When tie waa 1 year old he waa working on ell pips line In tha Texas fields. When hs was 12 hs went to sea for five years. For fire years hs wss employed as a mechanical nglnr In western Canada. In 11. at tha outbreak of th war. ha enlisted In the Ca-nadlaa Ca-nadlaa eei-vic. and waa eoon commissioned com-missioned warrant officer. H was engaged In several great battle of th war and wee severely wounded. |
