Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-07-12
LIGHTNING In HARNESS.
RECENT INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS
OF ELECTRICAL SCIENCE.
False Prophet-Novelties Of Electric
Lightfns-New Things in Telegraphy.
Electricity as a Motive Power-Many
Other Surprising Inventions.

Electricity Motive Power-Many
Other Surprising Inventions.
1t cannot but be interesting to all to know
something Of the more important steps that
have recently been taken in applying the
science Of electricity as an industrial art
The force is one that is easily convertible into
either light, heat, power or chemical action
But few years since scientific men gen
orally affirmed that it could not be prof1tably
employed in either form. Now they are in
hot competition demonstrating its economic
value in each And every new achievement
reveals further and greater possibilities at
tainabie beyond in each Of the several lines
Of application, until it almost seems that this
science is in itself the knowledge Of the in
finite
SO little awhile ago that it seems but yes
terday the writer of this article heard a pro
fessor in a college near New York aver in a
public lecture that incandescent electric
lighting was an Illusion, q humbug, an i'm
possibility. At the time Edison's experi-
mental lamps were glowing brightly at
MEMO Park, but the professor saw fit to ig-
more the fact. and, exhibiting dull, glowing
bit of platinum wire, said triumphantly:
There, gentlemen, is all you will ever see Of
the incandescent electric light" The arc
light could not be denied, for everybody
knew that the Jablochkoff candles were
nightly glowing In the Avenue de IOpera in
Paris
SEVEN YEARS LATER
Today, hardly seven years since that pro-
fessor did his bad prophet act, there are, it is
estimated. at least 1900 00O incandescent
QiaCfrio Ephfs in tho lpif,
They are used not only for indoor i,luniua
ton, but for decorative purposes-have been
ingenlously applied to use as jewelry, for the
adornment Of ladies' hair. for pretty sur
prises in bouquets and-most surprising of
au-for lighting up peoples interiors SO that
doctor could look right down into the
stonachs and see what repairs were neces-
sary to SO much of their works" as were
thus made visible The apparatus for this
latter achievement consists of a slender tube,
with glass bead on one end containing a
minute carbon flameut, which is connected,
by fine wires running through the tube, with
little battery. There is also a small NOV
able mirror at the inner or stomach end of
the tube, and when the battery Is put in
operation the operator can see plainly in
that mirror just bow dilapidated are the
coats Of the stomach into which the tube has
been thrust
Arc lighting is quite different matter
from mcandescent illumination, in that its
limitations, requirements and uses are more
closely defined For the lighting up of vast
spaces 1t has a field of its own, but. accord
ing to information given at the recent annual
session of the Electric institute in this CITY.
that field Is already being narrowed The
arc hgnt Is no longer the feature Of street
illumination IN Paris that it was few years
ago, having been replaced by groupings Of
powerful gaslights on the Avenue de rCpera.
the principal place of its display there New |
York is now the most extensively arc lighted
city IN the world, but If the appalling perls |
that seem 10 be involved in the EMPLOYMENT |
OF the tremendous current neceSsitated by !
THESE nights are not prevented by such safe |
guards as the burial OF the wires and their |
more perfect insulation. it u doubtful If rher |
WILL long be tolerated hsre There is hardly |
conceivable limit to the power to which |
the arc hight nay be developed, but the |
largest one yet known is that in the light
house at Sydney. Australia, which eousls
lso,oOo candies, and can be seen City miles
MT 5. 5. Wheeler, as standards Of cosaperi
son to enable comprehension Of What that
light amounts to, suggests thas an ordinary
gas ourneFs of 10 candle power; the bright
electric lights in the streets are 200 to 1890
candle power, and the Statue Of Liberty light
IS 4, 900 candle power
TIE TELEGRAPH SERVICE
VI equal Importance, at least with its ne
tor Illumination. b the apphustioo OF else
srfcasy for Geographic and uelephonic servio.
and 1t is really vouderf.i that with ell the
Study and tod Of brainy men during 50 MANY
years as has been since the telegraph was
put IN operation, for the perfecting Of the
'aenos OF teieg~phy, there should still be 20
many new and important things found out in
{ every year. One of the novel and probably
'ofuaofe recent discoveries rs how to send by
an exact facsimile of a rness.cn
md 10 do 50 rapidly. method has besu
'no"n long tune by which a fac-simile
was made up OF an infinite number Of rn;n.A.
lots successfully, placed on piece of paner
pread upon acylinder in synehroaous NOV.
nene with another cTlinder haaxinr 60