New Electric Lamp
Austrian Invention That Burns Thirty-Five Hundred Hours
An Austrian chemist. Dr. Haas Kuzel, has, after many years' hard work, succeeded in constructing a new electric lamp which be calls the Syrius lamp. As is well known, incandescent gaslight is cheaper than electric light because the filament wires of the latter are very expensive and the glass bulbs soon wear out. Dr. Kuzal has now invented a new substitute for the glow thread by forming out of common and cheap metals and metalloids colloids in a plastic mass, which can be handled like clay and which when dry becomes hard as stone. Out of this mass very thin wire threads are then shaped, which are of uniform thickness and of great homogeneity. These two characteristics are of great value in the technics of incandescent lamps.
The Kuzel, or Syrius, lamp hardly needs one-quarter 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 becoming blackened, as is, now the case.
