The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-09-25
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Big Times Ahead.

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ws alluded a morning or two since to
j., oxnrrimepts a, the Western Union
.,,,nh office in this city whereby per
Lrrs c,uld converse in an oritnary
,,n. II voice with persons at Pittsburgh.
rh;. !. d,ue by means Of Edison's improv-
'I.n,,-,,u. for imrariug greater deliea-
,bs ssnsorium OF the instrument, IL
NAV u.a such a term in such a cOhnec
,;sn A. the office Of the Benwood Iron.
ws,,. in This CITY, one Of these improved
;as,,nmrn,s has been pnt in. and
,h,,r,h II conversation is carried on be
,u.,n the Office and the mill 4 milesl
,r;,h ,hr utmost ease and distinctness
Tbi. invention, wonderful Us it i, seems
rkaly to he completely- thrown in the
.hoI. bv 4 far more wonderful invention.
pn-ios in the East are now experimenting
~ an electrical machine called the tele-
m,cbop. by which, when perfected, they
rlaim tina, power can be transmitted hun
In,J. Of miles through an ordinary cable,
r., instance. steam engine in Wheeling
c,n hs connected by a cable with q factory
IN C~ircippa,i, and thelatter be run for the
49,, oi rho cable and the cost OF coal at
hi. mint. With this new invention,
wo,tin. AZ i, Is claimed it will, the cities
rs., Tho coal mines would become vast
centres of power filled with engines sufi-
c;snt 10 run all the factories OF the Middle
>,,,,- a, one.half the present cost OF fuel.
Mills would he filed with whirring spin
die, and r%a,tling looms hundreds Of miles
away fum the engines that run them.
Only . small wire cable entering a build
INC would show the source, though hardly
the philosophy. Of the transmitted force,
The Possibilities of the invention 60 fur
tho, The cable can be tapped like u tele-
.rapb wire, so that one continuous cable
ran do the whole work of the country,
pnyided there is power enough at the
starting point.
To obtain this poweris the greatestprob-
lem this machine is likely to meet. That
there is A limit to the magnitude Of . steam
engine. a Glance at a Corliss giant will
show, There must be APPOINT where a
loiler becomes too large TO- resist pressure
unless !, is made corrcspondinsiy thicker,
and in th,, event IT could not be heated
wi,bou, melting the exterior, andthus be-
some orain 100 hin to stand the pressure.
A.aip there must be limit to the sine Of
,~or,ions Of the engine itself. A walking
ham or Az wheel may he needed too pom
,lemus to he cast. 1t is not possible, there
iore 10 have one mammoth steam engine
bu;,, % ,bs, connected bv telemaehons,
!, may mn all the machinery in the eoun.
-. Tho number Of engines o cu in use
rnrla n. !, /. ,rnc. reduced, fewer and
wors rowsrfnl ones doinsall the business,
~ ,beIeSsenin, ii the eoS and the DAN
49, f,om exnIos;ons. But the ideal of
mS.b,rico, novrr. where one monster
,,.,r, d;3 al, Tho work could not be found
IN .,S,m whsr, human ~;nrenuitv fails
n,,n,, r.rs,allv begins. And so in. the
Iim;,lsss reo,ms of nature the ,elemaehon
6nds , so,isf,c,orx mission, or the sour.
~ otn.,r,aI nowor mor;nc water ia the
NO., .n,a~s;h,a Tho ,reates. continuous
~ .n.,ss;h,s town s1a,.ed Nv water ON
,h;s s,n,;,or,;sth.tof Niagara, The water
ho,,,,. ,s,n.;no orar tb;s fsll sopals in
;an,o rs;,h, ~ nnO0t TONS falling
I;O tos, Il worId take tho eonsumption
Of SSmmN tons of, coal annually to
hor,lr r,isc such = weight IN the noint
fn,w wb;ch !, tII Estimating that one
h,,I 81 tho oo.l Consumed annually in the
wnrl5 i4oH0 4 ,ons il for mcchani.
cal nnrno<cs and that the whole
noxs- ~ T;,cnrn il utilized. all
~ r,,hiro-. IN tho United States
n,r,d ha dr;rsr bv tbis single waterfall,
,,;,b oror.h forrs 10 sn.rr 10 rnn ali The
m,ch;nO,r outside Tho Tn;,ei states he
s;Iss cnrid i ho roorbe,l The distr;bp.
,;nr ~ IN" nowor ~ Si.nra thmppbop.
,his country and nossibly t@brouchout the
void 0nns,~ Tins ID bc the future Of the
,sJsw,chon Grrd ,,ss;bilities arr there.
- T-Lotoo,r,,v will be r,v.
s,.a Vim , n,,rnr, ~ SsS,cs Santerinr
:, w. Nr,siI~ ~ ,ocoro,;vcs and
,.uT".,S 49, iii h. M rso Inv .,eom