Show brug for this hig poper paper CHARLES F BRUSH copyrighted by bv frauk frank G Ca carpenter menter 1896 HAT man is the light of the future that is electricity 1 I am going to light the world with ill id these were the ste words of a big broad shouldered young fellow of awen ty eight they were uttered about eighteen years ago to an old man who stood in front of a shop on one of the side streets of the city of cleveland and looked with wonder on it a glass globe in which blazed a ball of fire up held as it were between two b black I 1 ack car bons the size of your little finger this old man was A C baldwin of tiffin generally known as uncle baldwin and noted for his great common sense and shrewd business ability he made a fortune furtune out of manufacturing churn sand he was now passing through cleveland on his way to visit one of his bis relatives there he had left the depot and was walking through the streets it was in the early evening and the gas lamps cast their flickering rays upon the pavement in one spot however there was a glare of light which came from ithe ball of fire in hi the glass globe it was wai before the da days s of electric lighting and old uncle baudwin baldwin stopped and gazed at it in open mouth wonder As he did so this big broad shouldered young man came to the door his brawny arms were bare to the elbow A leathern apron covered his chest and fell to his knees his hands were blackened and his faced wap was smudged with dirt but his eyes were bright and his athie athletic tic form was the personification of vigor and force As uncle baldwin saw him he said that is a wonderful light I 1 dont understand it what is it there is no pipe lor for gas anere is the wick and where is the oil say what is it anyhow then came the reply that is the light 0 of the future that is electricity I 1 am going to light the world with it ill the old man for a very sharp old man he was became interested at once he inquired how the light was pro deuced he asked many questions as to its cost and before he leu leit he had told the young oung man that he would take worth of stock in the company which had been organized to push ane invention he rather hugged himself over his in vestment as oe he left the young man and his ball bail ot of fire and when a half hour later he found himself in the home ot of his friends surrounded by some of the most prominent people of cleveland tie he could not rest until he had told oi 01 the wonder he had seen and of the hoock which he had secured As he spoke ke the crowd burst into laughter aud sno uncle nc le baldwinn baldwins Bald wins relative then and now one of the most influential men dt 61 cleve land said well weli well well and so you have been taken in by that young fellow brush and his crazy ide is about electric ny ity 1 have had ad dozens ot of chances to buy his is st stock k but I 1 wo give a cent for a thousand shares why way uncle the man is crazy his ideas are impracticable and impossible of execution ana you might as well put your into lake erie as to give it to him and so the Ci cleveland eveland man went on he cited the noted capitalists of cleveland woo who would have nothing to do with the brush anven ion and he be finally persuaded uncle baldwin that he handmade bad had made a mistake the result was that he withdrew his offer As he be came to the door the young man looked up from his bench ana anat said 11 1 I suppose you have come to back out of your proposition as to that stock that is the way they all do but I 1 tell you you are making a greab agrest mistake and are lousing loosing a fortune THE MILLIONS IN electricity it was not many years before uncle baldwin realized how great a fortune he had lost within twelve months alter after his refusal the name of charles F brust brush the great cleveland electrician was on every tongue his light had been shown at ac the franklin institute in philadelphia it had surprised the scientists of the world in the great electrical exposition at paris and ane french government had decorated him a aneva lier her ot of the legion of honor for his achievement A greater company had been organized to operate his anven eions the brush stock hid had doubled and over and over again until uncle baldwins baldvins Bald wins worth was of more value than all the saving and speculations cu lations at bit life thane the prophecy of the ithe young man had been fulfilled his light of the future had become the light of the present and today he has lighted the world with it the streets of the biggest cities of every continent bbbie at midnight through the genius of charles F brush I 1 have stood under his arc lights in tokio and osaka japan I 1 have seen them cast their shadows over the pigtailed ot of shanghai and hong kong and I 1 have threaded my mv way through some of the streets of Cilc calcutta utta cairo and constantinople by the brush liht of electricity the same light illuminates the hig big cities of 0 south america and australia and eu europe e and the united states slates have turned right night into day through the genius of this man his invention in electric lighting alone are held by many companies the world over are now represented by an aggregate capital of and his inventions in in electrical lines have created a capital of many millions more there are tod tody today ay tuure mure the invested in electrical industries outside ot of the telegraph and telephone and the electric railways of the world have assets amounting to more than mr brush is the inventor of the storage battery and all electric roads which are run in this way pay him a royalty he received halt half a million dollars in a single sale of some patents in london and the rut rubbing bing ot of his electric lamp has caused the genii of electricity to bring him a greater fortune than that represented by the wildest dreams of aladdin the poor young man is poor no more the capitalists of cleveland no longer talk about his crazy ideas of electricity he lives among them ail his genius has made his city not d and the great electric light company anich he founded gives employment to hundreds of families and its influence reaches to the ends of 0 the earth MR EUCLID PALACE still with all this the world knows but lime about charles F brush with all pis nis genius he is modest in the extreme he early adap ed the policy of keeping out of print I 1 do now know oi of a single interview which he has hitherto gi en to the public he has contributed little to the scientific journals and the world knows him only through his bis work it has no idea of the man and there are lew few who appreciate his bis wonderful wonder lul character and the wide extent ot of his achievements I 1 spent an evening with him not long since atthe at the big manni mansion onon on euclid avenue he has one of the finest houses in the united states and one ot of the most comfortable homes it is located in the best part of euclid avenue which is yuu you know one of the finest streets in the world and it is surrounded by seven acres of magnificent lawn where the land is so valuable you have to carpet it with greenbacks green backs to buy it looking into the grounds from the street makes you think ot of one of the old english estates immense forest trees shade the velvety green and a winding walk leads through these up to the house this is a massive structure of berea sandstone the whole front of which is covered with carving save where here and there magnificent win lows of stained glass lass show how out itis it is an immense build building ing of three stories with many turrets and towers heavy stone columns uphold the wide portico in the front and easy stone steps lead you to the front door the portico is lighted by an opalescent globe which hangs over you as you pass it and the mahogany waned walled vestibule contains another diamond globe whose rays bring out the contrast between the polished wood ot of san domingo and the mosaic floor ot of a roman pattern which might have been transplanted from the famed baths of caracalla caraballa Ca at rome As you look into the rooms beyond you note that though it is night everything as as bright as day mr brush has not invented the electric light to live in darkness and his house is perhaps the best lighted palace in the world and there is certainly no other that is lighted in such sucha a curious way it is provided with nearly incandescent and a num er of arc lights and the electricity for these is furnished by storage batteries THE WINDMILL AND ITS DYNAMO there are so he told me ten tons of storage batteries in the house and the power which charge these with electricity is an enormous windmill which he has erected in th the rear near every breeze that blows produces light for this house and nd the batteries are so large that it there should be a dead calm for a whole week they would still contain en enough u h electricity to run rqn all the lights ouge the windmill wind will itself is in large part the thein invention ot of mr brush it is the biggest windmill in the world and it is ed by a wheel which has a sail surface of about 1800 square feet the tower of this windmill is as high as a six story house it is set in heavy masonry and so made that it can turn with every wind that blows within it there is an enormous dynamo connected with the tower by a system of belts and pulleys and the whole machine is so automatic in its makeup make up that it needs only a little oil now and then to keep it perpetually at motion with the wind it has been in operation now for more than seven years but it is so made that it works as well as when it was built it produces enough electricity to charge the hundreds of cells of these ten tons of storage batteries ba teries and it furnisher the light bior the ahouse se and gives aves power to run the tria machinery chinery of mr bruchs laboratory which is located in the basement it costs him im mr brush told me much more than if he used the electric light furnished Murnis hed by the city but he prefers to be independent and the machinery is a pet invention of his own I 1 FEATURES IN ELECTRIC LIGHTING the arrangement of the electric lights in the house is after the plan of mr brush and his wife some ot of the rooms are lighted from the ceilings others have tights lights so shaded by opalescent globes and reflectors that only the softest rays surround you and of the magnificent paintings which cover the walls each has an electric flame in front of it so covered by a green reflector that you do not see it and you know of its existence only through the rays which are thrown back by the work ork of art behind in the top ot of the building there is a great hall in which mr brush has one of the finest magic lant lanterns irris in existence existe tice and this he operates through h an electric light of three thousand candle power the average calcium light or that produced by oxygen hydrogen gas for magic lantern use is he tells me candle power his electric light for this purpose is six times as strong and he has a dis dissolving solvin apparatus of his own invention in alich which all his slides lidis are registered during my talk with him he referred to the wonderful work which the japanese have been doing in color anji ing lantern slides having seen some w which ch I 1 used in a lecture recently delivered in cleveland on japan and I 1 told him hilj I 1 could give him an address where hi he could get his slides colored he replied 1 I do not want any one else to color my slides I 1 would prefer to color them myself and I 1 hope to have time to experiment in this way later on I 1 think there might be as much art shown in coloring slides as in painting pictures and the artistic effects of the best lantern work are yet to come CHARLES F BRUSH IN 1895 but before I 1 give you our conversation let me tell you now mr brush looks I 1 met him in one of the large parlors on the ground floor of his house he is a physical giant but so well proportioned that his form commands your admiration when gambetta saw him at the paris exposition of he said 1 I dont know which to admire most in mr brush his mental attainments or his magnificent physique mr brush is about six feet two in his stockings he is broad and big boned his head is large and it is fastened to his frame by a strong well si shaped aped neck he stands straight with his shoulders shoulder rs well ahr thrown awn back and his chest is deep and full he has a dark complexion and dark eyes which show out from under heavy brows his forehead is high and full his mouth strong and characteristic and his under jaw firm and indicative of streng strength tb he is now forty six years of age and is in his intellectual tel and physical prime he retired from active business several years ago and at that time expected to devote five days out of every week to his laboratory work and one to his business the demands of his large property however are so great that he has almost reversed the order and is now devoting about five days to business and one to his laboratory he is working to get away rom business and he hopes in the future to devote more of his time to scientific investigation and experiment the day of his laboring hard for the dollar has long since gone byland by land while in the future his good business brains 1 wih lead him to get gel all the money possible out of his future inventions still his work will be more that of scientific experiment than money grubbing for new patents A BOY INVENTOR during my talk with him I 1 asked him a number of questions about himself and his first experiments in the field of invention he nas been an experimenter all his life his father was a farmer who lived near cleveland and he gave his boy a good education he showed a wonderful aptitude for chemistry physics and engineering said he to me the other night 1 I cant remember when I 1 was not interested in physics I 1 began to study them when 1 was about twelve years old long before I 1 had reached them in my course of studies at school 1 I was always experimenting with something and while I 1 was in the high school in cleveland I 1 made microscopes and telescopes grinding the lenses and turning cut some very fair instruments HIS FIRST ELECTRIC MACHINE when did you first become interested in electricity 1 I cant tell when I 1 was not replied mr brush when I 1 was thirteen years old I 1 had made a frictional machine to generate electricity it was made out of a bottle and I 1 had it so fixed that I 1 could charge a leyden jar with it I 1 wish I 1 had it today I 1 dont know what became of it about this time I 1 made some electromagnets electro magnets and had bad an electric battery or so this was before I 1 was in the high school and I 1 suppose my interest in electricity could be said to date as far back as the a age e of twelve III had you any idea ea when you were a boy that you would be an inventor and did you ever think at that time of being able to make money out of your inventions vent ions I 1 yes 1 replied mr brush 1 I did while 1 I was in the high school I 1 got up a plan for turning the gas off and on at the street lamps and of lighting it by electricity the whole was to be done with an electrical machine arid and it was to dispense with the lamplighters lamp lighters I 1 thought for a time that I 1 might make some money out of it but thought it might operate today at that time it was hardly commercially practical and I 1 gave it up prophesies ELECTRIC LIGHT what was your next electrical experiment peri ment 1 I cant say as to that replied mr brush 1 I was always work working III g at electricity I 1 read all that I 1 could find and I 1 the reports of experiments as they were given in the newspapers while I 1 was still in the high school I 1 produced an electric are aig light t with a lamp and a battery of my own construction and when I 1 graduated aiom there it was a curious thing that my |