The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-05-14
THE WONDERS OF ELECTRICITY.
Some of the Marvellous Results Promised al
the Paris Exhibition.

Some of the Marvellous Results Promised al
the Paris exhibition.
The remark is common enough in the
mouths of layInen as well as OF the initiate
that the future developments of electricity, as
an applied art, have been as yet only dimly
toreshadowed. The Electrical Exhibition, to be
held in Paris next autumn, will set this liter
ally in a clearer light, and give brilliant illus
tration to the present state of the science, while
1t will prefigure the progress to be looked fol
IN the near future. On this point correspond
cut of the n. Y. Courier des EtdtS Cnts
speaks in effect, as follows:
The immense nave of the Palais de rIndus
trie will be filled with all important material
of electric science 1t will be reached by q
small electric railway, on the SIemens system
starting from Marty and entering the palace
near the Pavilion de l'IIorloge. The road
Twill be of the vladuct kind, as 1t must neccs
sarly run clear of all other ways occupied by
carriages and foot passengers. An elevated
track, on light columns, will run parallel with
the avenue, and drop its passengers in the cen
ire of the building. The trains VIII consist OF
two saloon carriages Of the usual dimensions
and u small electric motor, which Will take
from the rails the fluid supplied by generators
at the end of the line.
In the nave will be a small pond several
square metres in area, in which 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 forming part Of the official part OF the
exhibition, when will comprise all forms OF
governmental electric apparatus; manipulat-
Ors, receivers, piles, telegraph posts, isolators,
l ol,n thar tlott IF no
cessary detail in the complicated system of
commercial or military telegraphy.
Towering above the whole nave will be an
immense lighthouse, the perfected result OF
the Serrin system; the style adopted by the
State at La Heve, and to be employed in the
constructions planned by M. de Freyclnet
BY daylight the spectator will watch the
operations of a whole army OF telegraphsts,
and other electric specialists, each IN his own
niche; while at night this swarm of operators
and motors will be lit by the blaze of a
thousand electric lights streaming from the
roof-a grand composite of all known systems
Jablochkoff, Werdermann, Jamin, Siemens,
Gramme, Lontin, Noaillon, Meritens, Suisse
Wilde, Brush, Swan, Edison, Maxim, Arnaud,
Crompton, Brockie &c, some IN globes, 9th.
ers dlffused by enormous Balestrierl reflectors.
Force will be supplied by magnetic and dyna-
mo-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 replaced by fire alarms,
electric dials municipal and police calls, &c,
A prominent rival of the government will be
the five great railway companies, with their
systems for stoppage and signalling, their
electric brakes, train registers, calls and
alarms, besides singular carriage, already
,,,, t,l
by Messrs. Deprez & Napoll, for observing
the running of trains, and registering velocity,
traction, force of wind, consumption of steam
&c.
The basement region will offer also the sur.
prising and novel results obtained by the re-
cent abors of Messrs. Cabanellas, Hospitalier
and DepreZ, in the matter of electric division
transportation and distribution, department
in which the French school has been success
full.
So much for the basement the region of sci
ence and practical utility. The upper story
has been devoted by the chief Commissioner
to scientific curiosties and fanclful inventions
for the delectaton of the curious but untcchnl
cal observer Two telephone auditoriums will
be arranged to connect, one with the opera and
the other with the Theatre Francais richly
furnished, and supplied with some fifty tele.
phones each, where the auditor, calmly seated
in his armchair, may listen to the sonorous re.
citative of NJ. Nillarct, or the bri ght dialogue
of Croizette and Coquelin. In adjoining
rooms the visitor may talk through the
Herr telephone with distant cities like Lyons,
Orleans, Dion, or dozen others.
Next will come series of eight rooms, lit
eral copies of Partisan apartments of the pres,
ent day, where everything will be, so to speak,
run by electricity The kitchen will be light
IL. Lana beat "a b.,
electric currents passing through water a half
dozen electric cooks, by means of incande-
scent platinum wires, will turn out electric
waffles," and electrically heated metallic plates
Will serve for braziers and chatting dishes The
dining room Will be fitted out with all the
wondrous new apparatus which already threat.
ems our peaceful firesides with It's novel blend
ing of science and comfort. The central sun.
light, in place of chandelier, can be lighted by
the pressure of a button or the opening of a
door. The dishes Will be brought up on an
electric dumb waiter; doctors, errand boys,
firemen and servants can be summoned by the
familiar New York system of dlals and calls.
The only thing left to do would seem to be to
eat by electricity, and, in view Of the wonders
accomplished, even that seems not so very i'm.
probable.
The third loom-the parlOr-wIll be furnish
ed with electric chandeliers mantel clocks go
ing by electricity and adorned with electrical
groups and figures, telephone speaking tubes,
and electric firepaces. In the billiard room
adjoining, an electrical billiard table will en-
able the player, If not to make his carroms at
least to mark them by an electrical indicator.
1t would be a pleasant fancy 10 add to these
rooms an electric chair for the extinction of
the persistent bore. You take the idea? Your
bore is comfortably seated, smoking and talk
ing you to death. 4 light touch on a knob
vulsions and set upright on his legs. Erit er
Hecessitdte. Seriously, however, the parlor
will have an electric piano TO be played by
some other fellow" at distance, and havInC
a Carpenter mel0grdphs to make electric rec.
ord of Improyisatlons.