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Item # 726050
August 16, 1897
THE EVENING TRIBUNE, San Diego, July 8, 1897
* Nikola Tesla & Thomas Edison
* "War of Currents" heated rivalry
* "Glow Lamp" (cold light) invention
The top of page 3 has a one column heading: "Electric Lighting" with subheads and small engraving of Edison. (see images) Surprisingly this issue is in good condition being from the "wood pulp" era. Very hard to find issues that are not totally fragile from this era in paper.
Complete with 4 pages, a few tiny binding holes along the spine, nice condition.
Background: Imagine a world where the sun never sets—not because of a flickering, heat-bleeding wire, but through the harnessing of pure, ethereal radiance. In July 1897, the titans of the Gilded Age, Tesla and Edison, reached the ultimate fever pitch of their rivalry, both claiming to have perfected the "Glow Lamp"—a revolutionary leap that promised to render the traditional light bulb obsolete. This wasn't just a gadget; it was the birth of "Cold Light," a breakthrough that eliminated the 95% energy waste of heat in favor of a brilliant, room-filling luminescence. For a potential investor or customer of the era, this signified a total liberation from the expensive, fire-prone filaments of the past, offering a future of near-everlasting illumination and the first glimpse of a wireless, electrified world. To own a Glow Lamp was to own a piece of the stars, captured in glass by the two greatest minds of the century.
* Nikola Tesla & Thomas Edison
* "War of Currents" heated rivalry
* "Glow Lamp" (cold light) invention
The top of page 3 has a one column heading: "Electric Lighting" with subheads and small engraving of Edison. (see images) Surprisingly this issue is in good condition being from the "wood pulp" era. Very hard to find issues that are not totally fragile from this era in paper.
Complete with 4 pages, a few tiny binding holes along the spine, nice condition.
Background: Imagine a world where the sun never sets—not because of a flickering, heat-bleeding wire, but through the harnessing of pure, ethereal radiance. In July 1897, the titans of the Gilded Age, Tesla and Edison, reached the ultimate fever pitch of their rivalry, both claiming to have perfected the "Glow Lamp"—a revolutionary leap that promised to render the traditional light bulb obsolete. This wasn't just a gadget; it was the birth of "Cold Light," a breakthrough that eliminated the 95% energy waste of heat in favor of a brilliant, room-filling luminescence. For a potential investor or customer of the era, this signified a total liberation from the expensive, fire-prone filaments of the past, offering a future of near-everlasting illumination and the first glimpse of a wireless, electrified world. To own a Glow Lamp was to own a piece of the stars, captured in glass by the two greatest minds of the century.
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