Show Helion Lamp Helton-Lamp Lamp Latest Discovery The secret cret of ot electric ic lighting was discovered just about luO years yeans nob ago no b by Sir Humphry Davy the great English English Eng Eng- lish Ush explorer in physical science At that time the famous Welshman had hadju Just ju t succeeded In making a permanent electric spark between two bits o of crude carbon and thus invented tho first form Conn of electric lighting ling now used under the guise of or the electric arc li light hL Recently as If fC to celebrate theone the thle one hundredth anniversary ary of or it its In Introduction Introduction In- In to mankind the electric mystery has hns a again aln given gl a great ad advance advance advance ad- ad vance to human science in fn search arch of better artificial light from Crom The electric fluid nui Pro Prof C. C Parker and Dr Walter G G. Clark have ha brought about this Improvement em nt through their work In the Phoenix laboratory at Columbia Columbia Co Co- lumbia university For the past ten years cars science s has been trying to Improve over O tho the ordinary ordinary or or- form of or Incandescent bulb light In this It was proven Cn that there was an enormous amount of wasted waste current current current cur cur- rent an and a tremendous amount of lost energy The flamo Is yellow and tho the cost per can candlepower Is li relatively hl high h. h The economic saying saIng possible under the new discoveries dl runs Into countless countless countless count count- less millions of dollars each year ear to the human race as there thre are arc over a billion of or Incandescent lamps u used etl In Inthe Inthe inthe the United Slates France Germany German nn and Italy combined d Curiously enough Italy which Is a small an and comparatively comparatively poor POOl country is ahead of all nations except the United States In Inthe inthe the use u of el electricity and even ahead of this country In the use of the multiplex multiplex multiplex mul mul- system of or telegraphing Tho The fortunes rivaling the size of oC I tho the Standard Oil fortunes which will I come to the men who will put Into commercial use an incandescent lamp with a 11 pure white light at a low co cost t has hns caused tho German scientist Dr also to seek for the solution of It the problem One new Invention In claims to do altogether without any filament to heat with the electric current current cur cur- rent The newest discovery Is called a hellon helion lamp and has been worked out after aCter seven years years' work It Is Just like an ordinary ordinal incandescent globe until the current current current cur cur- rent Is turned on when It begins to glow slow and und finally turns out a light about four tour times as brilliant as us the electric bulb the public Is accustomed to In theatres and expensive c hotels This Tits light lIht la is claimed to Ive an absolutely white light and it has the same lines In Its spectrum spectrum spec spec- trum as shown b by sunlight The first t Incandescent lamps lamp used a a. fine platinum thread twisted inside a comparative vacuum Now the filament used is a carbonized d filament from Crom the t e palm tree or from rom the bamboo ree reeds reeda Only about 3 per cent of the actual current sent Into the lamp through these filaments of oC carbon carbon carbon car car- bon is turned out again In the shape of oC light The rest Is lost in the effort to heat the thread nto Incandescence With certain recent improvements this amount has halS been ral raised ed to G per cent Dr the tho German scientist took a clue from Crom the Incandescent gas man mantels which hd c come como into use uso and secured an nn electric 1 lamp that 6 per cent a n further gain of or 1 per cent over oter the f former waste of oC current But Dut this H Id Hnot not a cheap J practical commercial method r 1 an and the amount saved In current Is more moru than lost In the time cost of oc manufacturing the lamps Still many arc are used 1 lii Ii Germany It was thus that science was confronted confronted confronted con con- fronted with the necessity of oC dl discovering some new material which would withstand withstand withstand with with- stand the high hish temperature and yet et ct not affording such an Immense waste of the vital current Platinum melts at a point j way below the temperature desired The carbon vaporizes besides being very wasteful through Its Us difficulty In iii reaching reach reach- log Ins the proper heat lIe degrees rees to secure Incandescence t f Some of the very vcr rare metals how how- over o possess a u. hl high h melting point with witha a comparatively cly low point of ot I once ence Osmium a tI rare metal found In hm Ina a few fow ores arcs scattered throughout thet the tho United States Stales and had both t of these st points ts lIu but t It was was' found Cound to bo lIo os as l brittle that It was confined on only I to sel- sel scientific 1 experiments In the laboratory Other metals like tantalum and tun tungsten tungsten tung tung- I Isten sten and their alloys proved pro to have points better than the thc carbon incandescent incandescent cent but then thorn thole were practical dlf- dlf which prevented their being manufactured on a tremendous ous commercial com coin i. mercial basis The latest o of all and tho the one which hitch It t Is claimed will surely surd an and 5 swiftly do the work Is called the hell hellon helion on filament fila fila- ment which name however r carries no scientific meaning ua us to Its composition Its filament is said not nol to be lie metallic In nature and ancI it docs does not flot Kite I c off a 1 light as does tho time tantalum and tungsten ten filaments It gives a 0 clear pure white while light This filament Is said to be a composition deposited upon a thread of some unknown substance Tho Thu lighting which does docs the work Is Js said to be compose composed of oC silicon with witha a small percentage e of or other othor rare metals met met- als Experiments before the American Physical society have ha proven pro tho the scientific scientific tIne value of oC this new form of or incandescent incan incan- descent descant lighting Yet Yol Its inventors do donot donot not yet claim the new light is ready for manufacture on a big ble- scale Much tedious work remains to be done dont before these ti new w lights can be he used by the public Yet Yd as a scientific fact these In Increased Increased Increased In- In Incandescent bulb lights have been creased to nearly four times their effi effi- clene The They working out of tho the commercial com corn r I mercial phase of the matter remains for Cor other realms reams than that presided over b by science lu the laboratory |