The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1885-01-25
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Cling -aling -aling ling ling "Confound
I'll" exclaimed tho house physician Of ono Of
tho large UPTOWN hospitals. springing out Of
his chair a. he heard the ringing Of the bell.
You'll have TO excuse me a moment; they're
letting the temperature In tho contagion ward
run too high"
With that he haetily left tho room.
During his absence tho reporter. who had
been sitting with him. looked In the direction
from which the ringing sound had come. Tho
only clue to Its origin Was An instrument ap-
parently aflxed to the wall. and seemingly
consisting OF only dial plate graduated like
those attached to metallic thermo meters. with
O movable dial hand and two subordinate
hands. which looked like the alarm hands on .
clock. One Of these had Just been touched BY
tho main hand. the contact having evidently
cIaek elack .olaok and tho dial moved back
strument wore . metallic thermometer . cor
responding fall Oh Temperature. But on going
sts me Inv 90 tnst ne coSa sse D1
peared to bs an electrical attachment. from
wH WSS wires re- ran int the Yah
Thers no said ooiS. at ' the Sfa. s4 oyer
groes more. the tsnreratars's all right now.
I've had them lot some fresh air into tho ward.
porter was easmnna the inst sT sa .Ns r
wonder how found out while sitting here that
" anns aS Il b. ~ ssnns
at that dial plate. Tho temperature Of tho
room In which the patients lie Is recorded on
that plate. l can sit hero and road it off. II 1
barren to DO busy with my books can set the
alarm hands Mt tho degrees above or below
which the Temperature should not rise or fall.
and be- notified by tho ringing OF the bell. just
eyor either extreme is reached by tho dial hand.
Its now aud ingenious invention"
BY q contrlvanco which is elegant in its
si rnnd II is pabrsaly the iny9ntSbp 81
upon the idea that such IN Instrument would
DO useful. and then handed over the idea for
e of Eson M Ga n
sers .si, In an enterprise which required him
Grated vaults. He soon began to feel tho dis
agreeaDIe effects OF emerging from the extreme
cold OF bc warohouses and vaults into ordi-
him that il an instrument could be constructed
which would record the temperature in these
or superintendent's office. 1t would bs OF
great use in this and other industries. lie felt
that .o easz H0ca ar .s
devised an apparat US called the teethermom-
otter. which may be briefly described as ,fol;-
lows: In the room. the temperature OF which
is to be recorded. is placed y metallic Their
momoter This, Is connected BY wires with u
wherever 1t is most convenient. With the con
traction or oxpans ion of the metals in the Their
yitazes q sorles Of magnets which. acting
through the wires, vitalize magnets back OF the
s&d ss as the Sad upo as
tho receiver to move absolutely in unison with
that on the thermometer"
from nna ro Tar besenih tho ds hanging
a for the
the paper IL continualy unrolling. and pencil
is kept moving with the dial hand. making
record. 1t enables me. for instance Ii I am
called away from duty and substitute L. put
temperature in the ward has been allowed to
vary too much one way or the 9th r. More
the is SO that It shows
which it prevailed. so that know upon whom
among the employees in the contagion room to
OF tho hours when zach emrlovee is on duty"
:. ~ shonid think suggested the reporter.
tnai such an iiIst ,,!, would have other
:, Wherever tomPera,1rs is Of emancipation
Murray, Of the Alaska was IN here this morning
70 SEQ II u could not be utilized by navigntors
since the Arizona bumped against an Iceberg
without injury to the berg and considerable
da "a, to the ship seaiaring men have dreaded
The best Indication OF the proximity OF ice
berss is the incroasn9 cold OF the water. To
continuously dip u thermometer into the sen
would obviously keep one man at work all the
time. Capt. Murray recognized at a glance
that the telethermometer would obvlatc this.
The idea is to place tho metallic thermometer
in the induction pipe. through which all the
water for the use of the vessel passes and con-
meet it with recording dial on tho bridge. where
the Temperature can be reud off by tho officer
on duty. II could bs used. moreover, in deep sea
soundings to determine the temperature OF tho
water at varying depths or 1t could be placed
on mountains or AT points where it is impossi-
BILE to maintain signal stations. and the OBJ
servations could be recorded at q central sta
ton. Its prettest Application however, will
bs in detecting smouldering fires in buildings
or ships. Tho thermometers can be located in
floors and beams, among bales and barrels.
md n person in tho observation room can be
informed Of any rise above tho normal tom
perature ut any point Its use In grain elevat-
ors, hothouses. and so on Is obvious.
In this room here" continued the phys-
room. you will see two variations of the in
strument called respectively a telehydrO-
barometer and n telcmanometer. The first
records water pressure ut d istant points. For
instance. the water for our hydraulic elevators
il supplied from tanks. 1t is important that
low or rise too high. Here .you see indicated
on the dial tho number OF feet of water in tho
tanks. III tho water should give out and the
elevators fall. tho record on the paper would
show at what moment the accident happened.
This instrument is in use by several com pnnies
and pressure OF water at their dams. The
telemanometer indicates and records steam
pressure. chief engineer OF q steamship
when of duty. can sit in his cabin and toll by a
glance At the receiving dial plate IL all Is going
well below. Here we use tho instrument to in
The system on which the instruments are con-
structed IL called telemetry"