Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-10-19

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Britain. Who has reo-ntly visited tais
country In a recent address N elias
GOV be -aid that IN Engl4ni = means Of
transmitting poser by el-ctricIiy mus,
soon H. the importan, problem Of the
dsy. What are the EEgli.h people -
do - hen tlselr coal Is exhausted? of
Aneri-z ami her great water courses he
said
The amount Of water falling over
Niagara is equal to 100 .GsDO .0sD tons al
hour falling 10 feet. The amount of
coal required annually 10 raise such a
weight up 20 the point from which 1t
fell, whica is a measure o. the amount
Of pOver yielded by that water In fall
ing. would require the con -umption 81
%. 600 900 OF tons Of coal year. which
Is the amount nox consumed 10y the
entire world. Now if 30 per ceat If
the power used 10 drive the first dina
mo-electric machine may be recovered
from the second; and hence if the
whole pow.r of the Niagara could be
utilized it could be distributed over
the United States, so as to give from
that waterfall alone q power equal to
the present entire mechanical force
Of the world, estimating that one.
half the coal used is solely for mechan-
ical purposes"
As an example how the fall of such q
body as the falls of Niagara could he
practically utilize by means of the tel.
emachon, q gentleman who has studied
the subject for years gave the follow
ing illustration last Sunday: A series
of fumes could be constructed from
the edge of the descent of the Ameri-
can falls to the level of the water be-
low Of size sufficient to carry all the
water of the Niagara river through
water wheels. With shafting this pow
or would be used to turn the machine
generating the electric current. This
current would then be carried to New
York city by conductors, which are
copper rods. These rods may be tap.
ped then at any point wherever power
is needed, and wires carried into fac.
tories just as gas is now carried in
pipes through the streets. In the fac
tory telemachon would be placed of q
power sufficiently great to run the
shafting. Thus the entire power re-
quired by the state of New York might
be taken off along the line of the main
conductors. The amount of electricity
taken off at any one point would be
readily regulated in the same way
in which the current taken from q
battery for telegraphic purposes is
now regulated--that is, by intro.
ducing suitable resistance to the local
line.
So powerful are the magnets attach.
ed to this instrument, that the party,
while observing it, were compelled
to leave their watches in another room,
else they would have been magnet.
lied.
Mr.. Edison believes that he can SC
assist Mr.. Wallace in perfecting the
telemachon that power may be trans.
mitted from one point 10 another as
though it were telegraphic message.
Already by means OF this instrument
Mr.. Wallace is enabled to transmit the
power of the Naugatuck river quarter
of . mile. The power of this stream
is great enough to drive the ponderous
machinery of the Wallace factory where
800 men are employed. A series Of ex.
perimants with tho instrument has
shown That in the transmission of the
enormous power only 20 per cent is
lost.
In this instrument the electricity is
produced by the Wallace dynamo cleo.
trio machine, no battery being used.
Four large electromagnetic are placed
with their poles facing each other. On
an axis parallel with and situated be-
tween them is disc of iron carrying
upon its opposite faces q row of cleo.
tro-magnets, thirty in number, on each
face, whose poles. facing outward, re.
volve as close as possible to the poles
OF the larger magnets, called the field
of force. On the same axis, but out
side of these discs, strips of copper are
placed equal in number to the magnets
on the discs, each strip Of copper being
connected to one end Of the wire on the
magnet. The other end Of the wire
goes to the next strip. Each strip,
therefore, is connected to the last end
of the coils and to the first end of that
Immediately following it. When the
disc, with its magnets, is rcvolved by
any power, the weak magnetism re-
naming in the iron itself generates q
current Of electricity, in the wire .ur.
rounding these magnets. In virtue of
the principle discovered by Farraday,
that whenever . conducting wire il