The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-07-07
TIE WONDERS OF ELECTRICITY
Some of the Marvellous Results Promised at the
Paris Exhibition.

Some of the Marvellous Results Promised at tn
Paris Exhibition.
The remark is common enough in tn
mouths Of laymen as well as of the ini
tiate that the future developments o
electricity, as an applied art, have beer
as yet only dimly foreshadowed, The
Electric Exhibition, to be held in P Arit
next autumn, will set this literally in q
clearer light, and give brilliant illustra'
ton to the present state of the science
while it will prefgure the progress to be
looked for in the near future. On this
point a correspondent of the Courier
speaks, in effect, as follows:
The immense nave Of the Palais de
PIndustlis will be filled with all import.
ant material of electric science. 1t will
be reached by small electric railway,
on the Siemens system, starting from
Marty and entering the palace near the
Pavilion de PHorloge. The road will be
of the viaduct kind, as it must neCessari-
ly run clear of all other ways occupied
by carriages and foot passengers. An ell.
evated track, on light columns, will run
parallel with the avenue, and drop its
passengers in the center of the building.
The trains will consist of two saloon car
riages of the usual dimensions, and a
small electric motor, which will take
from the rails the fluid supplied by gen.
orators at the end of the line.
In the nave will be small pond sew
eral square metres in area, in which a
miniature steamer will lay miniature
submarine cable on the Colas system. -
In the basement of the building will be
illustrated all varieties Of such cable and
wire manufacture, adjoining, but not
not forming part of, the official part Of
the exhibition, which will comprise all
forms of governmental electric appa-
ratus; manipulators, receivers, piles, tele.
graph posts, insllstors, switches, and a
thousand other matters of necessary de-
tail in the complicated system Of com
mercial or military telegraphy.
Towering above the whole nave will
be an immense light houIe, the perfect
ed result Of the serrin system, the style
adopted by the State at La Heve, and to
be employed in tbe constructions planned
by M. de FreyCinet.
By daylight the spectator will watch
the operations of whole army Of tele-
graphists, machinists, and other electric
specialists, each in his own niche; while
at night this swarm of operators and mo-
tors will be lit by the blaze Of a thousand
electric lights streaming from the roof
grand composite Of all known systems
Jablochkotf, Werdermanu, Jamin, Sic.
mems, Gramme, Lontin, Nosillon, Meri-
tens, Suisse, Wilde, Brush, Swan, Edi.
son, Maxim, Arnaud, Crompton, ,Brockie,
etc., some in globes, others diffused by
enormous Balestrieri rehsctols. F rec
will be supplied by magnetic and dyn-
amo.electric generators amounting to
1900 horse power. -
The Pavilion Of the city Of Paris will
be adorned as for an art exhibition,
where statues and hangings will be re-
placed by fire alarms, electric dials, mu-
nicipal and police calls, &c. A promi-
hent rival OF the Government will be the
Ave great railway Companies, with their
systems for stoppage and hdsigns.ling their
electric brakes, train registers, calls and