The Rock Island Argus., 1881-05-06
ELECTRICITY.
How Lightning will be
Utilized.
Some Of the Results promised at the
Paris Exhibition.
from the New York SUM-

From the New York SUM-
The remark is common enough in the
mouths of laymen as well as of the initiate
| that the future developments of electricity
| as an applied art, have been as yet only
dimly foreshadowed. The Electrical Ex
lhibitiOn, to be held in Paris next autumn
/ will set this literally in a clearer light, and
give brilliant illustration to the present
state of the science, while it will pretigure
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 Pin
dustrie will be filled with all important ma
| terial of electric science. 1t will be reached
Iby a small electric railway, on the Siemcns
| system. starting from Marty and the palace
near the Pavilion de fHorloge. The road
will be of the viaduct kind, as it must nee
essarily run clear of all other wavs occu-
pied by carriages and foot passengers. An
elevated track, on light columns will run
parallel with the avenue, and drop its pas
sagers in the centre of the building. The
| trains will consist of two saloon carriages
of the usual dimensions, and small cleo
trio motor, which will take from the rails
the fluid supplied by generators at the end
of the line
In the nave viii be small pond several
square metres in area, in which miniature
steamer will lay a miniature submarine
cable on the COlas system In the base
ment of the building viii be illustrated all
varieties of such cable and wire manufac-
ture, adjoining, but not forming part of
the official part of the exhibition, which
will comprise all forms of governmental
electric apparatus; manipulators, receivers
piles, telegraph posts, isOlators, switches,
and a thousand other matters of necessary
detail in the complicated system of COM
mercial or military telegraphy.
Towering above the whole nave will be
an immense lighthouse, the perfected re-
suit of the Serrin system the style adopt
ed by the State at La Heve, and to be en-
ployed in the constructions planned by NJ
de Freycinet.
BY daylight the spectator viii watch the
operations of awhole army of telegraphists,
machinists, 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 compo-
site of all known systems s-Jablochkoff,
Werdermann, Jamin, Siemens, Gramme,
Lontin, NOallon, Meritens, Suisse, Wilde.
Brush, Swan, Edison, Maxim, Arnaud,
Crompton- Brockie &c, some in globes,
others diffused by enormous Balestrieri re-
Electors. Force will be supplied by mag
netic and dynamo electric generators
amounting to l, 500 horse power
The Pavilion of the city of Paris will be
adorned as for an art exhibition, where
statues and hangings viii 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 a sing
ular carriage, already seen at work on the
Eastern line and invented by Messrs
DepreZ & Napoli, for observing the run
ming of trains, and registering velocity,
traction, force of wind, consumption of
steam, &c.
The basement region will offer also the
surprising and novel results obtained by
the recent labors of Messrs. Cabanellas,
Hospitalier, and Deprez, in the matter of
electric division, transportation and distri-
button, department in which the French
school has been successful
So much for the basement, the region of
science and practical utility. The upper
story has been devoted by the chief com
missioner to scientific curiosites and fanci-
full inventions for the delectation of rhe
curious but untechnical observer. Two
telephone auditoriums viii be arranged to
connect, one with the opera and the other
with the Theater Francais, richly furnish
ed, and supplied with some fifty telephones
each, where the auditor, calmly seated in
his armchair, may listen to the sonorous
rccitative of NJ. Villaret, or the bright dia
| logue of Croszette and Coquclin. In ad-
| joining rooms the visitor may talk through
| the Herr telephone with distant cities like
Lyons, Orleans, Dion, or a dozen others.
Next viii come a series of eight rooms,
literal copies of a Partisan apartment of
the present day, where everything viii
be, so to speak run by electricity. The
kitchen will be lighted by electric lamps;
the range heated by electric cur
| rents passing through water: a half dozen
electric cooks. by means of incandescent
platinum wires, viii turn out electric waf-
tles," and electrically heated metallic plates
viii serve for braZiers and chatting dishes
| The dining room will be fitted out with all
the wondrous new apparatus which al
ready threatens our peaceful tiresides with
| its novel blending of science and comfort.
| The central sunlight, in place of chandelier,
can be lighted by the pressure of button
or the opening of door. The dishes will
! be brought up by an electric dumb waiter;
| DOCTORS errand boys, fremen and servants
can be summoned by the familiar New
York system of dials and calls The only
thing left to do would seem to be to eat by
electricity, and in view of the wonders ac-
| cOmplished, even that seems not so very
improbable.
The third room-the parlor-will be fur
nished with electric chandeliers, mantel
clocks going by electricity and adorned
with electrical groups and figures, telephon-
ic speaking tubes, and electric fireplaces.
In the billiard room adjoining, an electric