Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1883 — (From the Boston Post, January Ist.) THE PORTABLE ELECTRIC LIGHTER. [ARTICLE]

(From the Boston Post, January Ist.) THE PORTABLE ELECTRIC LIGHTER.

One or the most ingenious and use* ful contrivances in which electricity plays the prominent pait, is the portable " Electric Lighter, for practicable use in the office at home, and ia factories, banks, hotels, restaurants, saloons and all where lighter * arj needed. It does away with the liabilities of fires from the careless use of matches, or from fires from children playing with them or from mice and rats. The apparatus occupies a space of five square inch, es and weighs but fivr pounds, and can be carried with ease from apartment to apartment. It is complete in itself, requiring no extra power, wires or connection, and is so constructed that any portion or part can be replaced at a small cost. By simply pressing upon the knob to the full extent of the spring (which connects the battery) an electric current is produced, by which tbe spiral of platinum is heated to incandescence and the light is instantaneous. The material lasts about two months, and can be renewed at a small cost through any chemist. It willnotb > long before everybody will have a Portable Electric Lighter. The price. $5, is so low that it can not fail to become popular at ouce. ****** At a further cost of $3.50 connections and cups are adjusted to the battery, controlled by a switch, so that it can be adapted’ for the pur pose of ringing an alarm or call bell which can be attached to the»instru ment, or by the addition of wires can be rung at any reasonable distance. When so adjusted, the circuit can be altered In an instant, by the switch, to .give light or ring the bell at will. These cornectione can also be attached to an induction coil, by which a large current of electricity can be eeoveyed. The brincipal office is at 22 Water Street. Boston, where all applications for this most novel lamp should be sent.