Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-09-05
From Our Regular Correspondent,
European Letter.

VIENNA, Aug. 16, '93.
The international electrical exhibition
was opened this morning by Crown Prince
Rudolph. The whirI of the big driving
wheels, the hiss of escaping steam, here
shril whistle, there the crackle of an
electric spark, are quite bewildering.
The giant of the place towers above every
thing. and can be seen from one end OF
the long hall to the other. 1t consists of
huge dynamo-machine, constructed by
Messrs. CAM & Co, of Buda.Pesth, said
10 he the largest in the world, and
feeding several hundred incandescendent
lamps It is much more powerful than
the one exhibited by Edison in Paris,
which in 1881, created so great sensa-
ton. 1t is perhaps the most remarkable
sight in the exhibition. Right and left
are machines constructed either on the
Gramme or Edison type, under the direc-
ton of native electrical engineers. There
are others on The Brush type, exhibited by
the Anglo-Austrian electric lighting
company, while several are being built
according to Weston's patents Omitted
Sales electric lighting company This
vast aggregltive of power is transformed
into thousands of lights, which illuminate
the exhibition building, its anneXes, and
Il large tract of the park where it stands.
The telephone in its manifold varieties
and shapes, constructed according to this
or tn 1t inventor, is TO be found in every
nook and corner Of the building must
say few words concerning the very
skillful arrangement by which the Wiener
Private TelegraFen Gcssellschaft has pro-
vidcd for the enjoyment of all music
loving visitors. In one Of the galleries
eight curious looking, gaily decorated,
windowless, little huts have been erected
Communicating with the outer world by a
thick heavy door, which closes hermeti-
cllly. The interior is lighted from above.
The telephones attac he'd TO the walls
communicating with the Imperial opera
house, whence the sound is conducted
through subterraneum wires for distance
of four or five miles. A few nights ago
an experiment was made in this depart.
ment, in presence of his imperial high
ness, Crown Prince Rudolph, Aida was
being performed at the opera. The soft
tones Of 20 celest Aida and the clang OF
the trunpets in the triumphal march Ell
transmitted with 4 ciearness probably
never ct attained in any of the similar
experiments heretofore made. Other
wires connect the telephone huts with the
popular concerts given every evening in
Vienna. so that by crossing over from one
Of these little musical dpns to the other,
we may be transported from the melan-
ch0ly wall of Wlgnerian funeral march
to the merry strains of one of Strauss
values.
In me centra! null Of the rOtunda to the
righ', around the graceful yet plain
pavilion Of stained GA surmounLed by
the Union JACK, Is he English Exhibition
Tnp pavilion Is most tAs,efuIlv decorated.
Surrounding it is he general post Office
exhibit ) far as it has been displayed ii
l. BY no means t tlrge one, and contrasts
most uultvlrtb with tn 1t of Other
countries, and more especially with that
Of France and the United S ates A title
tirtn'r On, tie utlI percha comp tnY OF
London. has large show case, containing
ieclnrn. If >ubturrineum c .bles teIe
graph an telephone wires, covered with
the COMPANY $ -peaitl product, in man
Me- VIII Ell I,olrtes and protects them most
rli 'rclouslv, One of the gre' test Of
Inventions in this class, Sir William
rhumpson's syphon recorder and mirror
instrument. is exhibited by the EASTERN
electric lighting and telegraph company.
This delicate apparatus, now so well
known in scientific circles, is used not
only in The com pany's offices itself, but
over the entire globe, wherever extreme
rehnemen. AMI accuracy are requisite.
Other inventions in this class are seen
showing to what immense proportions
electricity ms risen within a very short
space Of time, and what may be expected
10 come from it in the future.