Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1888-08-04
LIGHTNING IN HARNESS.
RECENT INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS
OF eLecrRICAL SCIENCE.


II cannot hut M interesting to all to know
somethiup Of In. NOR. im,nrt.n, .,s,,. .h.,
nave re<pntIv txsn t.Ien In .nnIvino ~.
x.e,re OF electricity a. an ind,,s,riai a., |
The. fort,e 4. one that IN e..iIv v.r,i,,,o ir,
s,tuer light neat power or chemicsi action
Hut . few wear. .,mr .cier,;flc man .sr
srally affirmed that n conld no. Ia nrot,tahlv
su,ployesi In either form Nov thev .r. In
not cx,m,etition den,or.er..tno II. ccoro,,ic
value in each And every nav achiev.u.ent
reveals further and greater poesibiiitie. ~.
ta,nable t,evond in each of the seversl fines |
ot appINation. until IL almost seenm that this |
,cienc,. II in itsalf thu knowiedpe Of tho In. |
nn,tA
10 iittle awhile aco that II seems but vee. |
tessiay the writer Of this article heard a pro |
tsesor In q college near New York aver in 4 |
tMitlic Ir~turs that incandsscent electric
lighting was an illusion, u bumbug, an i'm
,sssSihiiity At the time Edisons expert
mental lamps we're glowing brightly at
Msnio Park, but the professor saw 1T TO liz
turw the fact and, exhibiting dull. glowing
Tit Of platinum wlrs. said triumphantiy:
'vhere gentlemen, In all you will ever see OF
the incandescent electric light" The arc
,,ght could not 10 denied, for everybody
xnew that the Jablochkoff candles we're
uightiy glowing In the Avenue de iUpera In
rar,A
eEvEN WARS LATER
Today, haruly seven years since that pro
sesaF DID nis DAD propnet ACT. tncre are. u ID
estimated. At least I.UOOU incandeecent
seertr1c ltgbtS In the Cnited States alone
lhey are used NOT only TOR indoor hIu'n'na
ton. but Tor decorative purposes-havc BEEN
'nEeniousiy applied to use AZ Jewelry. for the
Adjournment of ladies' hair. Tor pretty sur
prises In bouquets and-most surprising OF
all-for lighting up peoples interiors 90 that
doctor could look right down Into the
Uomachs and see what repairs were neces
ary to % much OF their works" a. were
thus made visible The apparatus for this
sstter achteveiDent consists OF slender tube.
With glass tead on QUE end containing q
minute carbon ftlanent. which % connected,
oy fine wires running through the tube. with
= little hattery There Is also small NOV =.
abie mirror at the timer or stomach end Of
the tuts. and when The battery II put In
operation the olera0r can see plainly in
that mirror just now dilapidated are the
rmts OF the stomach into which the tube has
tss.n thrust
Arc lighting n quite o different matter.
from tmsnde-s'ent illumination. in that its
umitatiot,s. requirements and uses are more
closely defined For the lighting up Of va.
slsates u has field Of its own. but accord !.
ing TO information given at the recent annual
<4ss,on OF the Electric institute IN this city.
that field II already heins narrowed The
arc light IL no longer the feature Of street.
illumination in Paris that it was few years
ago. having been replaced BY groupings OF
powerful gasights on the Avenue de lOpera,
the principal place OF its display there New
York IL now the most extensively arc lighted
city In the world, tut II the appalling perils
that seem to I've involved IN the employment
Of the tremendous current necessitated by
these lights are not prevented by such safe
guards az the burial of the wires and their
more lerfest Insulation it u doubtful ii they
| ~,li long t,e toierut.xi here There IL hardly
q conceivable limit TO the power to which
| the arc light may be developed but the
| largest one yet Enown II that In the light,
| house at Sydney, Australia, which equals
:S6.OUO candles, and can be seen fifty miies
Mr. T. b Wheeler. a. standards OF compari.
son to enable comprehension OF what that
light amounts to, suggests that an ordinary
gas burner Is Of IL candle power. the bright
electric lights In the streets are .:sU to 500
candle power, and the Statue Of Liberty liz BIT
u sS,OUO candle p,wer
| THE TELEGRAPH SERVICE
! OF equal Importance. at least with IT. use
| Tor illumination 1, the application Of cleo
| tr,city for teiegra pho and telepbonic seryics.
and it u really wonderful that with all the
| study and toll of bra,ny men during 70 ma y
vsarp o. II has lseeu since the telegram WAS
Out in o,eratlon. for tho perfectino Of the
,c,ence Of telccraphy. there should still IN "a
many uew and imturtant thing, found ont in
II every year One of the novel and prot,a x
valuahie recent discoveries Ia how 70 send Ly
talerrapb an exact fac-s,mle Of . massace
and 70 do % rapidly A method has ,r.eu
vno~n a Ion. time by WHICH q fac.simil.
va, made up Of an infinite number of minuts
dot, sucspssiyely. PLACED ON a piece Of 3. Ne,
spread uTon q cylinder In synchronous move.
a,ent with another cylinder bearing the mes.
saca A point, pressed upon the message
cylinder q It revoiveL, caused the break
tnp Of the current each time that n
bens metailic-and made 4 mark by
the receiving instrument corresponding d
Just 20 much Of the line - had beep touched
hut that was very slow prucesa In the new
way an upright lever. 20 pinioued that 1,
moves freely In all directions carries In il
top little cup. Into that cup the sender OF
Q message pokcs his pensil, and forms. one
after another. ths letters composing his dis
patch. II will probably rattle him little a,
first to go on making shapes OF letters RICH,
N the eame spot, ene over another. a. IL b
we're piling up phantom symbols, and to ses
none OF them matsriaiizs under his pencil
but hs win soon get used to that Each
movement OF the levers lower end increases
Or diminishes the strength OF currents that
acting upon the receiS,ng machinery. move
the writing pen 10 such curved modification
OF the r'sht angied apphcations OF the forces
as to conform to ths motions Of the trans