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September 8, 1883
Lake Charles Commercial
Lake Charles, Calcasieu County, Louisiana
What is this article about?
An Indianapolis inventor develops a powerful electric headlight for locomotives, equivalent to 4000 candles, to illuminate tracks for a mile, powered by a steam-run dynamo, with features to light depots, bridges, and tunnels via connected wires.
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Electric Head Lights.
[Inter-Ocean.]
An Indianapolis inventor is quietly laboring to perfect an electric headlight for locomotives, the power of which is to be equal to that of 4000 candles. As a twenty-candle light is the most intense that has yet been devised, the prodigious gain of this invention, should it prove successful, is quite incalculable. "It will light the track for a mile brilliantly," says the Baltimore American, and the light will be full and continuous. The generator or dynamo will be run by steam at the will of the engineer. It will be located opposite the air-brake, and will not take up much room. By the same machine, depots, bridges, crossings and tunnels, will be lighted. Extending along the track in both directions will be an electric wire connected with the lamps in tunnels and bridges; then extending downward from the dynamo on the engine, the brush will be arranged to touch the wire as soon as it is reached. This will light up the object ahead, and as soon as the brush leaves the wire on the other side the light goes out. A public exhibition will be given soon."
[Inter-Ocean.]
An Indianapolis inventor is quietly laboring to perfect an electric headlight for locomotives, the power of which is to be equal to that of 4000 candles. As a twenty-candle light is the most intense that has yet been devised, the prodigious gain of this invention, should it prove successful, is quite incalculable. "It will light the track for a mile brilliantly," says the Baltimore American, and the light will be full and continuous. The generator or dynamo will be run by steam at the will of the engineer. It will be located opposite the air-brake, and will not take up much room. By the same machine, depots, bridges, crossings and tunnels, will be lighted. Extending along the track in both directions will be an electric wire connected with the lamps in tunnels and bridges; then extending downward from the dynamo on the engine, the brush will be arranged to touch the wire as soon as it is reached. This will light up the object ahead, and as soon as the brush leaves the wire on the other side the light goes out. A public exhibition will be given soon."
What sub-type of article is it?
Curiosity
Extraordinary Event
What themes does it cover?
Triumph
What keywords are associated?
Electric Headlight
Locomotive Invention
Dynamo Generator
Indianapolis Inventor
Railway Lighting
Where did it happen?
Indianapolis
Story Details
Location
Indianapolis
Story Details
An Indianapolis inventor labors to perfect an electric headlight for locomotives equal to 4000 candles' power, lighting the track for a mile continuously via steam-run dynamo; it will also light depots, bridges, crossings, and tunnels using connected electric wires touched by a brush from the engine; a public exhibition is planned soon.