Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-04
ELECTRIC FLASHka-

There are many Indications that be-
Tore long the electric light will be the
only lumfnant employed ON railway
trains An important step has been
taken BY the Russian government
Which has decided that all the car
rfages on the State railways shall be
lighted by electric light in future.
M. G. Sullivan suggests in the Elec-
tr1cal Engineer that very wise and
simple precaution will be the supplying
to each car operated by electricity of a
pair of rubber gloves, insulated pliers
and nippers, and suitable inscriptions
to indicate their USE These may pos
sloly be the means of of preventing de-
lay and Inconvenience and of obtaining
serious results in case of accident
| The primary battery has been applied
to the propulsion Of invalid chairs in
England. A strong chair, weighing
about 200 pounds is fitted with bat
terry at the back of the seat, and can be
speeded up to about five miles an hour.
AS it is calculated that the cost of
maintenance OF the battery does not ex-
ceed cents an hour, AMI if no renewal
would be required during an ordinary
days use, the economy of this mode OF
| propulsion for invalids is apparent
A patent has been granted for an
electrical drill for oil wells. The de-
vice consists of d series of motors in
| tandem, connected in such a way as to
make one motor. The design las been
to get the power within siX-inch
diameter, so that the entire mechan-
ism, which much resem bles d common
boiler, can be lowered in the well and
the power can be applied at the bottom.
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rod. which is worked rapidly in and out
OF cylinder, after the manner of q
piston rod.
IncandeScent lamps are being used
largely in the illumination of trium phal
arches and for general decorative pur-
poses, and now clocks are being made
for the towers of churches and public
buildings, which instead of having an
Illuminated dial with dark hands have
q dark face with enormous pointers of
light These pointers are made Of
glass, over all iron frame, and are
rendered visible for miles by mean
descent lights, which give them the ap-
pearance of slender white rods of fire.
An interesting ex hibition was given
In the central station of the Electric
Light company Of Melbourne recently.
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large number of prominent citizens as
sembled to witness, as lar as Australia
is concerned, novel application of
electricity. This consisted of making
a cookshop of the station. A supper
was served, all the viands of which were
cooked by electricity. The culinary
, operatsons included the grilling Of
beefsteaK, the making of toast, and
the boiling of water
The London Electric Plant urges
yonng electricians to try to realize that
at the beginning of their experience as
masters the man ufacture of dynamos Is
not the certain road to fortune. 1t
says: ''No sooner does young man
commence business on his own &C
count than he seems to cons slider it essen
t1al to design and manufacture dyna-
mos. 1t is frequently our lot to dis
suade beginners from neglecting the
more certain branches of insulating,
making fittings, and other fuch light
but equally profitable work IN order
that they may become full-blOwn dyna-
mo-makers. 1t cannot be too often in
sisted that to manufacture dynamos
successfully-we mean successfully in
the commercial sense of courSe-eXten-
sive premises, special plant, sufficient
capital to make large NUM- erS at once,
and thorough system of interchange
able parts are absolutely necessary.
For an amateur there is perhaps no bet
ter way or understanding ali about a
dynamo than to make one himself, but
this is very different thing to making
it for living. Hence our advice to
young electricians ambitious to make
dynamos to put upon the market Is:
DON'T"