The sun., 1889-11-29
NEW THINGS IN ELECTRICI1Y.

strkingy rapid electrical development is taking
place in the Northwest new region like that, rich
IN powers and minerals and full of shrewd,
terprisnE msm offers excellent nold for electrical
appliances and according to recent reportn the oppor
uuity has not been neglected Even disasters help to
make way for the now ideas and appliances Thus.
at Seattle where land valuable after tho
cent nre than before notable demand has sprung
for electric motors There were \ number OF small.
isolated steam plants in operation but now on resuui
ing WORK, the give decided preference to the
motor This S but natural their part, as they
lieved from the to their power. obtain lower
rate OF insurance and switch the current of md
in an instant
A correspondent of q wellknown paper in England
writes to caution those possessing valuable watercoOr
paintings against placing the electric lamps in close
proximity 10 their pictures hs believes that the
ilumnant Ia sufficiently pow erful to OF the
more delicate pigments to fade TO greater or less
degree He considers that water coors that safe in
dinused daylight not SO when exposed night after
night for many hours to the active white light OF eieo
rcity close at hand From the public discussion which
followed this statement evolved the fact that when
daylight and incandescent lamp OF equal intensity
measured by the shadow test compared for
tive power. daylight Is far pow werful. To this
point at rest two sheets Of sensitive Chloride OF silver.
paper for Photographic prints wero exposed, to
weak difused daylight wall and the other imme-
diRely under inc andescent lamp u6 candle) with
opal reflector on the top of 1t. The lamp was Ad-
justed to give about tho depth of shadow tho
daylight The half OF each paper was protected from
the light for comparison. After four hours the
posed to weak daylight was considerably colorsd on
exposed half and tho other under the electric
ligh showed absolutely difference between the
posed and protected parts Tho idea therefore that the
light from amino candescent lamp dangerous than
dusei daylight to water color paintings hardly be
supported: is certainly less active 10 Photographic
paper Chloride OF silver paper can be toned and
finished under bright light from incandescent lamp
without being in the slishest degree Affected by 1t.
The fact that large numbers of birds drawn to
their death by the electric light the Liberty statuo
has often been commented on. II appears that tho
Eifel Tower 10 responsible for similar destruction.
few nights since aarge flock ofarks which passing
Paris attracted by the electric light In the phdrs
OF the Einel Tower threw Itself in u compact
the windows OF NJ EiRels apArtm entS with their we'll
known obStnRcy the poor birds struck themselves
furousv against the glasses Of the phde and fell supe
fed all around The man In charge OF the light captured
large number. The next morning the gardeners
employed IN the Exhibition found 4 number OF the
birds in the small lAkeI at the foot of the tower
The new electric transfer table which has built
by the Fitchburg Railroad Company, at FitchburE.
Mass, run by the lighting dynamo OF the shops the
whole operations Of the table and dynamo require the
services Of but three who thus enabled 10
eomplish about four times the work formerly done by
twelve men and locomotive and Its crew. Tho great
convenience Of the table Ia acknowledged by the
pany and has been visited and examined by OF
railroad people.
An electrical paper of this city recently published
. carefully compiled list OF tho electric railways in
operation In the United States. The table shows =
grand total Of l70 roads LEGO miles OF track and H.
ss4 cars. iI3 being actually at work. Consider
ing that tho end OF os5 there only electric
railway operation the growth of electric traction has
been something phenomenal even for such 10 ahead
country as America English electrical paper, com.
mentIng on this Unprecedented boom. says:
Not content with this brilliant record our enter.
prisng cousins turning their attention 10 this coun
try. II they succeed in infusng the English trHpway
companies with some OF their own innovatinR energy,
there will venture 10 say be cose scrutiny A.
to who brought about the desired result"
The cost of running railways with horse power
and with electricity hsS been carefully estimated and
for the purpose OF comparison line running ty cars
Ia taken Such u line operated with horses costs
$500 rs per day and with electricity $3.50 Tho dit
ference in favor of secricy $751;. Or st62 per
day saved on each car.
Anew telephone line has Just been opened between
BudS- Pesth aud Prague, Austria The employees cSud
not agree what language TO use 10 each other somo
wanted to speak German Polish, and others
Magyar Czech At last the difficulty has been
by Ord .ance that French shall be spoken.
In the course OF paper on The Application of EIeo.
tric,y to Works and Mills" recently read by r. Vaughan
Hughes to tho South SAnOrdshre Institute of Iron and
Steel Works Managers At Dudley England, the reader
said that there was everything TO recommend an eec
furnaces could be used mileS away boilers could
be placed near the coisry to save hauling coal the
power OF a stream or river could be used, and hun
dreds Of horse power could be conveyed along small
copper wirsI while the places could be lighted UP by
electricity All this could be done we'll and cheSply
In . paper on "sL Elmo's Fire on Ben Nevis" by
AnEns Rankin, In The records OF the Scottish MetsOro
logical Society 1t Is stated that ST. Emos hrs. seen
occasionally At the Ben Nevis obSSryAtorI takes tho
form of Jets of Light on the tops OF all objects that
any height above the general level OF the roof OF
the observatory In ns display the tops or the
objects quite AblAEe with the light which EoWOd
and hsssd in brilliant tongues Of white and blue frsm
four six inches In length Nor the phSnomsnoE con-
fined these objects alone In the amer dspSyL butn
the observer stands the roof his hair hat pencil
Gc, Elow with Il AZ well, and when he raises = stick
above his head the stick also has long nAme Al the top
Further. however than having Slght tInElinE In his
head and hAndS he suffers ne Inconvenience Tho hiss
lag s very marked characteristic OF the phenomenon
bsAE always heard during ordinary displays though in
the fsSbsr dSplAJA WheA the light barely be
cannot bs from the Kissing of the wind