Show AN ELECTRIC LANTERN jk A nevada man M ix who pho iho bann has cag cat in fra i ahead of edison I 1 f 1 an n ingenious machinist lity who is too M modest odest to ti t allow his nis his name to be mentioned appears to have left edison fax jar behind and out in n the cold as regards the thie jasd use of electricity for illuminating pu purposes while hile nir air edison has been laboring fon for r grand wholesale results to fand means of illuminating alltha cities af f america and of the world at a our modest friend started in hi to do but a little thing and aad in ac mp lishing this we tare bare are aro inclined to believe le lieve that he has at the same iame same me succeeded in doing that which he ot other her hen has thus far failed to tb satis acton actor ily perform our oar inventor set himself to work 0 o make light on a small scale beale and it a agall cost emt sul sni and bea hea sume evic exic eded hla hia most sanguine ons we yesterday yest eida erds had bad theolea aire nire re of seeing in operation a lantern n which his light was bum ng an electric lantern intern was in eed just what he started in to hake ake and he has made a lantern ar r ah ahead ead lof f anything ever before I 1 mai mal rr line I 1 1 the lantern is of about the same dze lize and shape as ps an ordinary miners antem an tern anu and and may as readily be car led led in the hand onon or on the arm at k little distance it presents r nuch much the tho ame appearance as the f fancy faney lams am P aried by railroad conductors ex apt that thel bottom part is some mat deepe deeper in this bottom Is th the nitus which produces the elec rocity city that makes the light all AI ilat at is necessary to be done is to inert in a key ilke like like ilke a large clock elock key hey at be he side and wind the apparatus up then light is wanted ap the 9 he light ap years oars as soon as the machine starts and disappears very soon after it is stopped when fully wound clockwork will run for six hours but it can at any time be instantly stopped by turning a small button the amount of electricity required ia so amail small that it could hardly be measured as wet we are informed there are neither platinum kor charcoal burners indeed no burners at all the light is neither from ame flame nor from a substance heated to Incandesce incandescence VW just how the light is produced is still the inventors inventory secret he says mr edison has all along been wandering from the true road with metal charcoal and other burners what is seen inside the lantern is simply that which appears to be a a florence flask about two inches in diameter at the largest part of the bulb t the he neck descending into and connecting with the apparatus in the bottom part of the lantern this reversed task flask is completely filled with a liquid of a greenish yellow color two email iroe droe irce oro ore reen spen coming up through the neck of the flask to about the centre of the bulb where they are bent toward each other like the handles of a pair of small forceps this is the appearance of the apparatus until the clock work is started then a change is a instantly seen the tho T he squid liquid within with inthe the bulb begins to glow and in a few seconds it presents th the appearance ea r a 0 of molten n metal meta I 1 at a wh white eu jiwat he t y yet e t there there is no heat when tf the 1 d door r of the lantern is opened and the hand placed upon the bu bulb alb aib there fi larely perceptible warmth the light given out is very white and pure we ve do not know much about the candle power of any libb t but as this lantern made i a wa rom tom 14 by 20 appear hk as likht light a as s day tile th e light must have had ha d the power of about 15 or 20 candles candies the inventor says 50 at all ali events it is enough ugh cortil for all ali ordinary uses users and would be better than anything ever before seen for use in the lower levels of au nur pur j m mines I 1 the secret of ot tiner the bhole whole thing ahm g is is evidently in the fluid with which the bulb is filled what this ia is the inventor refuse refused to sayi baya lasT it is for it lie expects to obtain a patent he is taking 9 steps to procure the inventor says but three articles and those very these cost but a trifle wife to begin with are never consumed and never deteriorate teri terl orate at a very small cost tabie table e afa eald all vear or 01 lamps botn ba th movable and stationary may be made where they ate are stationary suspended from froin the ifie ceiling of a room or fixed a against ainest walls a stationary clockwork would be put up wl with th wires running to all ali the lights in a building J our Com stocker it appears to us has a better thing than even the big bonanza was for if he be can light up a house be lie can cant light up a city aud and therefore all the cities of the world this is not our friends farst first invention nor norm will tha patent he first it will only be one among a 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