Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1908 — NEW ELECTRIC LAMP. [ARTICLE]

NEW ELECTRIC LAMP.

Bulb Which It Contain* Sal* fa Barn 3,500 Hoar*. Consul E. T. Llefeld forwards from Fselburg an abstract from a Paris newspaper concerning a new electric lamp which it Is said will revolutionize the present system of lighting. The article was wired from Vienna and reads: “An Austrian chemist, Dr. Hans Kuzel, has, after mapy years’ hard work, succeeded In constructing a new electric lamp which he calls, the Syrius lamp. As Is well known, incandescent gaslight is cheaper than electric light, because the filament wires of the light are, very expensive and the glarss bulbs soon wear out. Dr. Kuzel has now Invented a new substitute for the glowthread by forming out of comujon and cheap Eaetalloids Aoliolrta in a plastic mass which can be handled like clay and which when dry becomes hard as stone. Out of this mass veiy thin wire threads are then sharpened. which are of uniform thickness and of great homogeneity. These two characteristics arc of great value In the technics of Incandescent lamps. The Kuzel or Syrius lamp hardly needs qa<sa.uarfer_of the electric current which the ordinary electric lamp with a filament wire requires. Experiments, It is asserted, have shown that the lamp can burn for 3,500 hours at a stretch. Another advantage Is that the Intensity of the light of the new lamp always remains the same, the lamp bulbs never become deadened, as is now the case. The new lamp, It Is said, will be jtot on the market soon.