Huntsville gazette., 1891-01-17
IN THE ELECTRICAL WORLD.

"A telephone line is Delng run diOIS
the Congo railroad.
in Stoneham, Mass, one electric
light is 106 feet above the ground. 1t
is ON top of pole lashed to high tree.
The welding of the spokes of metal
lie wheels to the hubs by means OF
electricity has recently been proposed
and process patented
I'm Belgium the white insulators on
telegraph poles are SO frequently
broken that grayish brown ones are be-
ing used to replace them.
There is some talk of using cleo
tricity as the propelling power on the
Lewiston (Me.) street railroad. If the
change is made the road will be extend
ed so as to open up large amount of
surrounding property.
A Minnesota town recently decided
to run its own electric lighting plant.
After plant had been contracted for
and installed the town was enjoined
from making payment from the town
funds, and the plant will probably be
turned over to private company
The new central station at ST. Pan
creas Vestry, London, on which work
has been begun, will have plant capa-
BILE of running 10000 lights. The dis
tributing mains from the station will
have current carrying capacity suffi-
cient to keep $4,000 16-candle lamps
burning simultaneously.
Telegraph lines are subject to
great variety of pests. In Rio, for ex-
;- hot
the wire and causes leakage. In Japan
the large web of a spider, dripping with
rain or dew, frequently interrupts the
traffic, while in Norway large species
of woodpecker raises havoc with the
poles.
1t is stated in commercial journals
that there has of late been marked
panies to reduce the rates on insurance
where the electric light is used, because
it has been demonstrated beyond ques-
ton that the electric light is much safer
than either artificial or natural gas
Inventive Age.
The board of public works OF
jamestown, n. T., has purchased, in
behalf of the city, a site of land on
which to erect an electric light plant.
Specifications have been prepared for
plant capable of running It's 2,O00-can-
die power arc lights. At first but $50
lamps will be put in. These will be SO
scattered about the city as to furnish
light to all sections. To do this will re-
quire about "a miles of line, which
will cost 1920 per mile.
By June 1, 1891, it is expected that
the new building of the Southern New
England Telephone Company at Hart
ford, Ct, will be completed. The
switchboard in the operating room will
be of the latest multiple switch pattern,
arranged for metallic circuits, and will
have capacity for 5000 subscribers.
The distributing board will be large
enough to accommodate 1000 pairs of
wires, and will be of Russia iron. The
whole building is constructed with
view to make it almost impossible for
fire to gain any headway. The parti-
tions are of terra Gotta, and lumber and
flooring have protecting materials be-
tween the different layers of planking.
The electrical range-finder is de-
signed for use in naval warfare, but if
it proves successful, it should be of
great value in times of peace as an in.
strument for readily and accurately find
ing the dis tance of inaccessible objects.
Two telescopes are used at known
distance apart, and the operation is
based upon fact that by simple cleo
trical arrangement no current will pass
unless the two telescopes are exactly
parallel. The observer notes on one of
the telescopes the angle required to
prevent current from passing through
the instrument. and thus measures or
electrically weighs the difference in
angle of the two.
-"Unrelenting conservatism" is
somewhat euphemistic term for the
guiding principle by which the official
duties of the town clerk of Bacup, Lam
cashire, Eng, are directed. The in
habitants of Bacup, which is large
manufacturing town, began to think
that, although somewhat late in the
day, they might as well be abreast the
age in the matter of street and house
illumination. They consequently ad-
dressed the town clerk on the subject
and requested him to consider the adj
visibility of taking steps with view
to the adoption of the modern luminant.
At the meeting of the town council the
clerk said he had received a number
of letters an re electric lighting, which
he did not think it necessary to read
n. Y. Sun.
Regarding the Longest Day.