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

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opposite a pair Of laagEsts IN the fei.l
a; force The esectflc earrens enter
ing the machine presses road the G-.i
AID Esae~tiz-s the rnAgness- Al the
same time u Es&ss-s throask the arns-
sur~. magpsslxinS that. - that the p,le~
al the arOAf1re BeAEest - the poles al
the field r2ASnets are II the opSrossie
naDe. In cunseaoence Of tins th- feld @.
force magnets sttrar; the Poies of ths
aTn&fare and cause the Arnssure 30 re
volve. Bat the motion In lie nee po-i-
tsOn brings other portiOns az the beeAk
pieces IN contact wIth the spring sz.i
causes q Redistribution Of the magnet
Ism. Again. attraction takes phase -
before. and AGAIN the direction Of the
current Is changed by the break picces
The magnetic effect being coufinuons.
the rotation Is eontiD uoas. increasing
constantly IN speed until the fric-
ton and the magnetic poser balance
each other.
In Sundays experiment the hoieme-
ter shoxei that the mAchin. male 3, co.
revolutions q minute.
The electricity from the wonderful
telemachon may be applied to illumin
alton. 1t solves the problem of the
subdivision of electric lights. Both
the Wallace foundry and the Farrell
foundry, near by. are lighted by these
lights, the army Of men being formed
in two divisions, one working during
the day and the other up to midnight.
Tricky studded as these foundries are
with heavy machinery, and obstructed
as the light must necessarily be by the
ponderous cranes, drills, supporting
columns, and projections, q clear light
is thrown upon the machinery, perfect
~ illuminating it. Adjustments to the
thirty.second OF an inch may be made
without the least strain upon the eyes.
A beautiful effect of this light is its
polarization-that mottled appearance
which it assumes when falling
through glass. This is the only artifi-
cial light, it is said, that is capable Of
producing it.
The following is an estimate made
by an expert of what it would cost to
light the streets of New York with
these lights: The average street burn.
er gives light equal to ten candles.
Assuming that one of the eight
Q ectric lights produced by the power
of one machine is equal to 4, 900 candles,
and assuming that there are 5000
lamps, each burning 20 cubic feet of
gas an hour, at cost of 81 a thousand
feet, it would require 1917 of these
machines to furnish all the lightrequir-
ed. The cost of the gas at this rough
estimate would be 500 an hour. To
produce the same light by electricity
would require. say, thirteen machines
placed upon towers. The cost of q
single light equal to that of 1000 can-
dies would be three cents an hour.
Each machine giving 1000 candle lights
would cost, therefore, twelve cents an
hour, and thirteen would cost 81 Sc an
hour.
The things that he had seen in the
foundry had curious effect upon Mr..
Edison. He seemed wrapped in
thought. Owing to his deafness the
many jokes made by his friends, Profs.
Barker and Chandler. were lost upon
him. Occasionally they were repeated
to him by Mr.. Bachelor. When Edison
hears good joke he seems to stop the
great thinking machine constantly
working within him. He laughs heart
lily, and then forgets his surroundings,
and relapses again into deep medita-
ton. Mr.. Wallace was explaining an
instrument he has invented that will
threw small stream of water
with such force as to tear tho flesh from
the hand. "Barky," said Edison sud.
denly. "if person should cut O
mans throat with such q stream
of water, don't believe q jury could
be found that would convict him OF
murder.
While going from the works, Mr..
Edison saw large iron caldron.
He stopped, looked at it meditative-
ly, and then said: "That reminds
me of what the Jersey mosquitoes can
dor
"Oh, yes!" said Prof. Barker, tell
us those mosquito stories of yours, Ed
ison."
II know two of them. returned Ed.
son. "A Jerseyman was so troubled
with mosquitoes ono night that he went
down into the yard and crawled into Q
huge iron caldron. Well, pretty soon
he heard noise as if bearing was
going on. He found they were boar
ing through the caldron with their
bills. When they had accomplished this
the man got big stone and clinched
their bills"
"Well." said one of the party, What
then ?"
"Why," answered Edison, "the
mosquitoes few away with the cal
dron."
The next story" he went on, "is
about drunken man in Paterson. who