Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-09-05
MARVELS OF ELECTRICITY.

the history OF the world is unquestlona-
bly, the electrical exhibition now in pro-
gress at Paris. In no department of
applied science has there been such rap
i'd and gigantic advances as in this and
the exhibition is Of profound interest
not only as showing the present limit of
the application of electricity to practi-
cal purposes, but as exhibiting the po-
tentiality of the perhaps not distant flu
ture. The location of the exhibition
the Palais de PIndustrie-is reached by |
an electric railway. on the Siemens sys-
tenn, trains on which consist of two sa-
loon carriages of the usual dimensions
and small electric motor, which takes
from the rails the fluid supplied by gen.
orators at the end of the line. In the
nave of the Palais de PIndustrle small
pond several square metres in area, in
which a. miniature steamer lays minia-
ture cable on the Colas system. In the
basement of the building are exhibited
all varieties of such cable and wire man
ufacture, adjoining, but not forming
part of, the official part of the exhibition,
which will comprise all forms of govern
mental electrical apparatus. manipula.
tors, receivers, piles, telegraph posts, is
olators, switches, and thousand other
matters of necessary detail IN the COM
plicated system of commercial or mill
tary telegraphy. Towering above the
whole nave will be an immense light
house, the perfected result of the Serrin
system. At nj ght the swarm of opera
tors and motors is lighted by the blaze
of thousand electric lights streaming
from the roof,-a grand composite of all
known systems. Force is supplied by
magnetic and dynamo-electric generators
amounting to 1900 horsepower. Occu-
plying pavilion are fre-alarms, electric
dials, municipal and police calls, etc.
and the French railway companies show
their systems for stoppage and signaling,
their electric brakes, train registers,
calls and alarms. In an upper story
two telephone auditoriums will be ar
ranged to connect, one with the Opera
and the other with the Theatre Fran
Gals. richly furnished, and supplied with
some fifty telephones each, where the
auditor, calmly seated in his chair, may
listen to play and opera. In adjoining
rooms the visitors may talk through the
Herr telephone with distant cities.
Next is a series of eight rooms, where
everything will be, so to speak, run by
electricity. The kitchen is lighted by
electric lamps, the range heated by cleo
trio currents passing through water, a
half-dozen electric cooks, by means Of
incandescent platinum wires, turn out
electric waffles," and electrically heat,
ed metallic plates serve as braziers and
chatting dishes. The dining-room is also
fitted out with all the new apparatus
The central sunlight, in place of chan
delier, can be lighted by the pressure Of
a button or the opening of door. The
dishes are brought up on electric dumb
! walters; doctors, errandboys. fremer
and servants can be summoned by thu
system of dials and calls. The only
thing left to do would seem to be to ca
r by electricity. The parlor is furnished
with electric chandeliers, mantel clock
going by electricity and adorned will
5 electrical groups and figures, telephone
speaking-tubes, electrical fre-places ant
4 an electrical piano to be played by som
: one at distance. The bedroom, be
Y sides all sorts of electric calls, will hav
: on the toilet table set of electri
0 brushes. The series of rooms close
y with family theater-stage, auditori
g um, fats and all-lighted by Werdel
e mann electric lamp, which allows tn
e footlights to be instantaneously raise
or lowered, filling the room wsth blaz
h of illumination or leaving it in tots
IL darkness at will. In this room note
II Partisan musical artists will be invite
ic to give concerts. Finally room wi
is be devoted to electric views. projection
D. and toys; miniature Geographic appar;
b, tus, trick boxes, magic lanterns, raj
b. ways. telephones, dolls and automata.
D. One of the important industrial il
a. ventions which Americans send is ii
ly electric middling purifier, the most pc
ne feet method known of separating tt
y, bran from the middlings. The electr
th buoy, an American invention, is also {
y. exhibition. The action of the wav
E" keeps up current Of electricity stror
IS, enough to produce light Railroa
i'll brakes are shown in which. upon tur
ly key, the movement of the whee
or operates upon series of dynamo m
CHI chimes which cause magnets to clan
at the axles. In this way no steam pow
i'm is wasted, the motion of the train sto
cir ping it. Among the most promine
IN features of Mr.. Edison's display ar
). Electric lightning exhibit, 125-hol
is power steam dynamo, and several .
ass namos of less power, one fve-horse Pc
Mt er, and several of less power, two tho
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