The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1878-10-18

luAoEmlnS himself upon tno mlnutest
details.
That man like Mr.. Wallace, after
studying privately upon this subject
for years, should calmly, delibertly,
and without ostentation, bring ont DO.
fore them an instrument calculated to
revolutionize the entire manufactur-
ing business, filled the party with
amazement.
BY means of il power may be obtain
ed from places where river power or
tidal power is abundant, or may be
Generated whore fuel is cheap, as at the
coal mines, and by means of an ortlinn.
ry cable be transmitted hundreds Of
miles. The cable may be tapped
from any point and power used there
from.
Some notion of the stupendous re-
suits that may follow should the tele-
maehon prove completely successful,
is given in the opinion of Prof. @. w.
Siemens of the Royal Society OF Great
Britain, who has recently visited this
country. In n recent address in Glas-
gov he said that in England means Of
transmitting power by electricity must
soon be the Important problem of the
day. What are the English people to
do when their coal is exhausted? OF
America and her great water courses he
said:
1.-The amount of water falling over
Niagara is equal to 100, ,000. 900 tons an
hour falling l50 feet. The amount of
coal required annually 70 raise such a
weight up to the point from which il
fell, which is a measure OF the amount
OF power yielded by that water in fall
ing, would require the consumption of
260 600 900 Of tons of coal year, which
is the amount now consumed by the
entire world. Now il 90 per cent Of
the power used 10 drive the first dina,
mo-electrie machine may be recovered
from the second; and hence il the
whole power of the Niagara could be
utilized it could be distributed over
the United States, 50 as TO give from
that waterfall alone n 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, 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 a size sufficient 10 carry all the
water Of the niagara river through
water wheels. With shafling this pow
er would be used to turn the machine
generating the electric current. This
current would then be carried 10 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 a telemaehon would be placed of a
power sufficiently great TO run the
shafting. Thus the entire power re-
quired by the state OF New York might
be taken OF along the line Of tho main
conductors. The amonntfo electricity
taken OF at any one point would be
readily regulated in tho same way
In which the current taken from u
battery for telegraphic purposes is
now regulated-that is, by intro
ducing suitable resistance to the local
line.
So powerful are tho 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 so
assist Mr.. Wallace in perfecting the
telemachon that power may be trans
mitted from one point 10 another as
though it were a telegraphic message.
Already by means Of this instrument
Mr.. Wallace is enabled to transmit the
power of the Eaugatuck river quarter
Of mile. The power of this stream
is great enough to drive the ponderous
machinery of the Wallace factory where
300 men are employed. A series Of ex-
periments with the 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 dynam-elec-
trio machine, no battery being used.
Four large electro-magnets are placed
with their poles facing each other. On
an axis parallel with and situated be-
tween them is q disc of iron carrying
upon its opposite faces 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 revolyed by
any power, the weak magnetism re-
naming in the iron itself generates a
current of electricity, in the wire sur
rounding these magnets. In virtue of
the principle discovered by Farraday,
that whenever q conducting wire is
moved in the vicinity Of magnet q
current Of electricity is caused to cir
culate in that wire, the feeble current
thus generated flows around the mag
nets of the field of force, increasing
their magnetism. This increased mag
netism reacts upon the revolving mag
nets, increases the electric current,
and so alternately, until the magnetism
attains a maximum, and that maximum
is generally in the wires of the revolv-
ing magnets. This current bears for
each 8 perfectly definite ratio to the