[N023073], Technical Note, Thomas Alva Edison, February 22nd, 1879
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- Title
- [N023073], Technical Note, Thomas Alva Edison, February 22nd, 1879
- Editor's Notes
- conceived the idea of using a bobbin or iron wire wound on lime iwth mplatinum for the last layer the iron and platinum to be pyro-insulated by acetate of magnesia and the size and rest'nce of the iron made so that when it was at a bright yellow approaching white that the plaina should be incandescent. I effect this by using an iron wire slightly loarger than the platinum. made some tests with iron and platina wire joined together & placed between supported and heated with the battery. I find not the slightest difficulty in so selecting the size of the wires that hte pt shall be brilliantly incandescent whiule the iron is yello. Hence I can make a lamp with 1 inch of incandescent surface (pt) with a large resistance, the inner wire of iron losing all of its heat through the platina,, this is a gain in economy of plant.
- Author
- Edison, Thomas Alva
- Date
- 1879-02-22
- Type
- Technical Note
- Folder ID
- N023-F
- Microfilm ID
- 31:177
- Document ID
- N023073
- Publisher
- Thomas A. Edison Papers, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University
- Has Version
- Archive.org Viewer, Microfilm Series Reel 31
- Item sets
- [N023-F] Notebook #23 N-79-01-19 (1879)