The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-10-31
NEW ELECTRIC DEVICES.
Being Brought Out Almost Daily
and in New Fields of In
dustry.
Systems for Registering Car Fares
and Work Involving Re-
peated Action.
Engraving on Glass-Water Power Trans
Engraving on Glass-water Power Trans
lnitted by Observation-Disclosures of
Electric Lights in Use.

New electric devices are being brought
out almost every day, a feature character
istio of the electrical industry md its de-
velopment. The latest invention. and one
that has not yet been made public, is the
Electrical register" It is intended to be
used for a variety of purposes. A series of
buttons along the inside of a horse car
within easy reach for the conductor, con-
meet with the register at the end of the car
IN somewhat the same manner as the pres
emit existing arrangement. BY pressing
one of these buttons the fare is registered
and the announcing bell rings simultan-
eously. In the system used at present the
conductor pulls the leather strap, which
rings the boil, and the fare ig registered by
the return action of the belt. 1t is said
that In the present method the gong can be
rung without registering the fare by skill
full manipulation. Again, in unloading a
ship, switches can be SO arranged that each
parcel of similar size, az in tea cargoes,
registers as it closes the electrical connec-
ton. The same device can be applied in
a pork packing establishment or in any
place where it is necessary to record re-
peated action.
A process of engraving on glass crystal
by electricity has been communicated to
the French academy of science by M,
Plante. The platet to be engraved is covered
with a concentrated solution of nitrate of
potash and put in connection with one of
the poles of the battery, and the design is
traced out with a fine platinum point con-
nected to the other side. The results arc
said to be of marvellous delicacy.
The Electrical Engineer makes the fol-
lowing extraordinary statement: "Nothing
in the future appears more probable than
that within the lifetime of persons now
living the industrial supremacy of Great
Britain will pass away with the exhaustion
Of her coal fields. Switzerland, Italy and
the Scandinavian peninsula ere destined to
become the great manufacturing districts
of Europe. This extraordinary industrial
revolution will be brought about by the
transmission and distribution, by %electri-
cal means. of the inexhaustible and
permanent water power in those countries.
More than q year ago i'll Switzerland, q
wooden mandatory of sc. 900 spindles,
with the, usual complement of auxiliary
machinery, was operated wholly by electric
power conveyed from a distant stream, de-
irving Its never-tallinR supply of water
from the melting of Alpine shows. In the
new era the SWISS republic may not i'm
probably become the foremost industrial
nation of Europe"
Very satisfactory results are now being
obtained by some of the English paper
manufacturers in bleaching paper by cleo
tricty, the process rendering the paper per-
fectly white without in the least iniuring
it's strength. This process in question de-
ponds on the use of a solution of mapne-
SUM chloride. which is decomposed by the
action of a strong electric current into
chlorine and oxygen on the one hand, and
into magnesium and hydrogen on the