The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-10-11
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RRENCH ELECTRICAL ExPOsITION,
An Interesting Account Of it From a
Private Letter.

| We are permitted to make the follow
ing extracts Of letter received by a gentle
man in this city from friend travelling in
Europe, giving an account Of the Electrical
Exposition ut aris.-Ed.l
BERLIN, September IL, 1881,
lspent last week in PaFis, having gone
there more to see the Electrical Exposition
than anything else,
Among the very many curious and in
teresting uses to which electricity is APP
piled is that Of Matching chickens,
Near by are pillow and u dozen sewing
machines and printing presses, all run by
electricity, There is u great variety Of
electric lights, and the hall at night Is
lighter than by sunlight in the day. Edison
has large apartment with lights arranged
In q great variety OF ways, some OF which
can be lighted and extinguished as a-gas-
light. An inventor named Swami has q
series OF $50 lights hung apparently on a
single wire which Is stretched around the
four sides OF room, while in the centre
there Is u chandelier with 81 lights. There
Is .full.sized street-caF making trips Of 4
quarter Of mile to Place dc Ia Concord
and back, propelled, OF course, by cleo
triCity.
This Is done, however, at other places, us
| rode half mile in "a car with twenty
four persons at Frankfort, and saw
another hack at London Crystal Palace.
OF printing telegraplls there is no end
nor Of telephones, During the performance
at the Theater, Francais or New Opera house
one has only to apply his ear to any one
Of the many telephones which are located
IN the hall and the performance at one or
the other can be distinctly heard. There
are two rooms with twenty-five telephones
in each that can be connected with either
place Of amusement OF course they are
always full. Each person is allowed the use
OF the machine ten minutes There are
several light house apparatus, one full
size, fifty feet high, showing the whole
operation OF light at sea.
One very curious electrical machine
transfers u picture from metal to paper, and
what Is more curious an old engraving Is
copied so that II can be printed from and
exact copies OF the old picture reproduced.
The hall is full OF statuary reproduced
by process OF electrotyplng Another
exhibit shows childs hand with every
vein brought out perfectly, also human
foot and leg discovering the muscles, veins.
arteries and bones. Exhibits OF electricity
as applied TO railroads are without number
and some OF the contriyances are very in.
genious and useful.
There Is an immense machine for EN-.
broidering lace curtains; It does four
pieces at the same time, each above ten
feet long and four feet wide,
The photographer Is busy all the time
taking pictures, and they seem to be very
fine.
Some Of the best paintings from the
Salon Of 1881 are shown. ..n..
Field telegraph lines, for use during the
movements OF an army, are shown in great
variety, as Is foot or more OF every
marine telegraph cable that has ever been
laid. This to me was one Of the most in
teresting parts Of the exhibition, for It
seems to me that nothing has done more
TO educate the people OF the various sec.
tons OF the world than the telegraphic
communication. There were also shown
parts OF old cables that had been In use
ten 10 twenty years, and the deposits on
them were very singular.
/ had forgotten to say that there are on
exhibition two iull.sized passenger railway
coaches, carrying fifty passengers each,
with necessary apparatus between the
wheels. Whether they have been In actual
use or not, cannot say.
France occupies the largest space In the
exhibition building. England comes next,
with the United States good third, fol.
lowed by Germany, Italy, Spain, switzer.
land, Norway and Japan. The United
States department seems 10 be the most ut
tractive, and has, l think, the greatest va
riety Of useful things. ,..,.
Edison's phonograpl attracts much at
tention, and the electric pen, long in use in
the United States, seems to lie new here.
The English department Is given up
much more to telegraphic instruments and
such things as railroad signals. J.WB.