The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1881-06-25
The Wonder Of Electricity '''Some I
the Marvellous Results OF tho
Paris Exhibition. ~ -

The wonder OF Electrlclty '''oVm0 VI
the Marvellous Results Of tho
Paris Exhibition. ~
The remark is common enough in the
mouths of laymen as we'll as of the mi.
tate that the future developments OF
electricity. as an applied art, have been
as yet only dimly foreshadowed. The
Electrical Exhibition, to be held in Paris
next autumn, will set this literally in
q clearer light, and give brilliant illus
tration to the present state of the SCI
ence, while it will pretigure the progress
to be looked for in the near future. On
this point correspondent speaks, in
effect, as follows:
The immense nave of the Palais de
pIndustrie will be filed with all impor-
tant material of electric science. 1t will
be reached by a small electric railway,
on the Siemens system. starting from
Marty and entering the palace near the
Pavilion de rHorloge. The road will
be of the viaduct kind, as it must nec-
essarily run clear of all other ways &C.
cupied by carriages and foot passengers.
An elevated track, on light columns.
will run parallel with the avenue, and
drop its passengers in the centre of the
building. The trains will consist OF two
saloon carriages of the usual dimen-
sions, and small electric motor, which
will take from the rails the fluid sup
Al
piled by generators 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 cables on theColas 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, which will comprise all
forms of governmental electric appara-
tus; manir ulators, receivers, piles, tele-
graph posts, isolators, 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 house, the per-
fected result of the Serrin system; the
style adopted by the State at La Heve,
and to be employed in the constructions
planned by N. de Freycinet.
BY daylight the spectator will watch
the operations of whole army of tele-
graphists, machinists, and other cleo
trio specialists, each in his own niche;
while at night this system of operators
and meters will be lit by the blaze of a
thousand electric lights streaming from
the roof-agrand composite of all known
systems-Jablochkotf, Werdermann,
Jamin, Siemens, Gramme, Lontin,
Noaillon, Meritens, Suisse, Wilde,
Brush, Swan, Edison, Maxim, Arnauld,
Crompton, Brochie, etc., some in
globes, others diffused by enormous
Balestrieri redectors. Force will be
supplied by magnetic and dynamo.
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, etc. A
prominent rival Of the Government will
be the five great railway companies,
with their systems for stoppsge and
signalling, their electric brakes, train
registers, calls and alarms, besides a
singular carriage, already seen at work
ON the Eastern line, and invented by
Messrs. Deprez & Napoli, for observing
the running Of trains, and registering
velocity, Traction, force Of wind, con.
sumption of steam, etc.
The basement region will offer also
the surprising and novel results oh.
tanned by the recent labors Of Cabanel.
las, Hospitalier and Deprez, in the mat
ter of electric division, transportation
and distribstion, Z Departmental which
the French school has been successful.
So much for the basement, the re-
gion of science and practical utility.
The upper story has been devoted by
the Chief Commissioner to scientific
curiosities and fanciful inventions, fol
the delectation Of the curious but un
technical observer. Two telephone
auditoriums will be arranged to connec,
one with the opera and the other with
the Theater Francois, richly furnished
and supplied with some fifty telephones
each. where the auditor, calmly seated
in his armchair, may listen to the sono
rous recitative of NJ. Villaret, or the
bright dialogue of Croizette and Co
quelin. 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 eigh
rooms, literal copies Of . Partisan apart
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