The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-05-19
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Since the days when BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
caught the electric current on his kites
string and demonstrated the identity Of at
mospheric and other electricity, this pow
erful agent of nature has been playing a
wonderful part in mans history and desti-
ny. When we learned to transmit mess
ages with it, the world was astonished, out
recently when we learned to talk through
it, men were lost in wonder. Slpce theh
the brilliancy Of the moon mas been
ecipsed by the light OF the electric lamps,
and now no one presumes 90 place a limit
to the uses to which this tremendous power
may be put for mans comfort and devel-
opment. We have been prepared,
indeed, by these former achievements
and discoveries to look without surprise
upon any new exhibition of the power of
the electric fluid or mans ingenuity in
finding il out, but the latest advance is so
startling and so calculated to revolutionize
matters, it deserves somewhat Of an ex-
tended notice. A learned and now celebra-
ted Frcnchman, NJ. FAUEE, has for some
time past been experimenting with cleo
trcity boxed and to be held for future use,
and the other day won victory in the
premises which has been exciting the COM
mcnts of the press, and has rendered his
name and his discovery familiar in
all scientific and journalistic cir
Giles on this side of the waters.
The achievement was nothing more
nor less than shipping from Europe to New
York a quantity of electricity boxed. The
supply was drawn upon by the ship
throughout the voyage and eight electric
lamps were kept burning thereirom the en-
tire trip. The supply was stored in several
wooden boxes about the size of ordinary
soap boxes. The lamps averaged about
twenty-five candle power and at the ter.
mination Of the voyage only small por.
ton of the electricity had been drawn Off
The apparatus used is known as the FAURI
accumulation, and the packed Up power cal
then be sent anywhere, kept any length o
time and will be equally and gradually
discharged along any circuit tina
may be attached TO the apparatus
This is indeed and in truth chain
ing the lightnings and brings natures
most powerful element into the almost
complete subsection of man. The grea
question has been, how can this power b,
utilized in houses and circumscribed opera
tons? NJ. FAuRE seems to have solved it
A short time ago it was reported that tn,
experiment was a failure, but the recen
operations on board the Labrador hay,
proven the possibility and indeed easy
practicability of storing electricity for pri-
vate use. In the FAuRE accumulation the
dangerous currents and boxed giant are
perfectly harmless, and to those who
understand the apparatus easily
! manipulated and made subservient
to any purpose. Such is the latest and per
haps most extraordinary victory over that
subtle and all-pervading agent Of nature
upon which animal life and the physical
world are so absolutely dependent. 1t doe:
not require any great stretch of the imag
nation to ioresec the legitimate conse
quences of such discovery. In short
time, in private families, these cases o
stored electricity will be used for lighting
the house; in mills, for RAINING the ma
chincry; on steamboats, and railways, fol
sriyng engines, and, indeed, for any pur
poses, and in any cases, where force is re
quired. This will affect coal and oil, and
In fact, all the various quantities now useC
for light and power. Such revolution il
the social and commercial world will neces
sarily produce changes which it is i'm
possible now to imagine and its effect upor
the world at large will be second only t
the discoveries OF MORSE and STEVENSON
The matter is, of course, not yet perfected
but FAusK company has already beer
formed for the United States, with capita
stock Of sl0,OOo,0 900, of which $4,000 hav
been paid up. The absence of an engine o
generator and its great cheapness rende
the FAuRE electricity formidable rival I,
the inventions and operations of EDISON
and unless the magician Of Menlo Parl
bestirs himself his fame ana labors will b,
forgotten before the achievements of III,
Frenchman, FAuRE. Truly the race con
tinues to advance,
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