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Daylight For Twenty-four Hours

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Parent Issue
Day
2
Month
December
Year
1844
Copyright
Public Domain
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Une ot the best investigators and oiscovery-makers of our country, is Mr. Cisí, editor of the Western Advertiser.- Here follows one of his ben tróvalos, Vfhjich, if realizable, will certainly be one of the greatest discoveries of the age: Gas aft "Obsolkte Idea." - In the Advertiser of the 4th September, under the head of "Important discovery," I announced the fact ihat a new species of light, far suspassing the Drummond in intensity, was aböut to make its appearance in our city, and would be submitted tovthe public inspection so soon as the nccessary letters patent were obtained for the discovery. It was stated that a half light, of ordinary size fortable use, had enabled print to be read at the distance of three hundred feet, the glass in this instance rendered semiopaque by grinding. This had become necessary to reduce the intensity of light for practical purposes, the full brilliancy being equal to that of the sun atnoon day. It was stated, also, that a tower two hundred feet high, or even less, would suffice to light the whole city, and that the tower when built could be lighted at an expense of three hundred dollars. Finally it was alleged that this discovery had been tested for the last five months. When I stated all this I was peïfectly aware that the account would stir up a vast ainount of incredulity. As my friend Wesley Smead, the banker says, and the remarle e vinces profound knowledge of temporal matters, "In the affairs of this world men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it." Henee 1 was prepared to expect, and even to justify, the skeptical air with which many re-, ceived the announcement, and the knowing look with which others quizzed me for being sucked in, as they phrased it, to usher it forth to the community. I have now the pleasure to say that all. this is true, ,and that, as in the case of the Queen of Sheba, the half has not been told. At that time I was not at liberty to say more, but now state - 1. Thai this light is magnato electrical. 2. That it is produced by permanent magnets, which may be increased to any indefinite e.xtent. The apparatus now finishing by the inventors or discoverers. in. this case will possess twenty magnel s. 3. That it supplios a light whosé brill-iancy is insuppórtable to the nak'ed eye. . 4. That a tower of adequate height will enable a light to be diffused all over Cincinnati, equal for all practical purposes, tp that of day. 5. That this light, when once set in operation, will continue to illuminate without one cent of additional expense. And, lastly, that the inventors in this process háve nearly solved the longsought problem - perpetual motion. They suppose théy have accomplished this, which I doubt, although there is as much evidence for it as I conceive can be furnished to the existence of ISIesmerism or Animal Magnetism - sufficient to convince others, if not myself. I suppose this light will prove the great discovery of modern times. It is needless to add how much it gratines me that Cincinnati is the place, and two of its native sons, .1. Milton Sanders and John Starr, the anthors of the discovery. Mr. D.A.Sanders has gone to Washington for letters of patent, and on his" return, public exhibitions will be made of its astonishing capabilities. The whale, that great sea lubber, has been elböwed-out of the community by theftog, the great land lubber. Gas for public use has superseded boíh; alas for them all, when doomed to be reckoned among the things that were! -é- I have no time to specify the many uses to which light. independent of combustión, tnay baápplied, and will merely suggest; as one, its perfect adaptedness to mining, in which respect it is ver.y far superior in efliciency as well as security to 3ir Humphrey Davy.'s lamp. Its.aid to "he Daguerreotype art alone is invaluable. - rfrs ;t - '-í -í- ■; :-

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