The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1891-10-08
IN THE ELECTRICAL WORLD.

The Rush street draw-bridge in
Chicago is now operated by electricity.
A forty-ton steam plant perched over
the center of the roadway has been dis
carded and a wire from the station a
mile and half away comes under
ground to the bridge The draw is 30
feet long and so wide. resting upon .
turn-table As feet in diameter
A telephone manager at Youngs-
town. O.. makes this statement: Did
you know that You can talk through
persons body? Well, have joined the
ends of a cut wire long enough for
person to ring up. and afterward held
an end in each hand. but far apart, and
the two persons could talk just as well
through my body rs if the lines wera
connected"
Prof. Tolomei, an Italian chemist.
concludes that the ozone produced by
electrical discharges in thunderstorm
coagulates milk by oxidiZing it and
generates Tactic acid. MIR. Treadwell.
of the Wesleyan university. in discuss
ing this. states that the action is not
mere oxidation. but is in part produced
by the growth of bacteria, which is
very rapid in hot sultry. weather.
"A plant of three hundred incandes-
cent lights was recently started in the
Vermont Insane asylum The pecu-
liarity of this plant is that while the
current is furnished by two one-hun-
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS automatic dyna-
mos, the latter are so arranged that
they run Independently or together, a
special interlocking switch being used.
and this running together is done with
out the use of rheostat or equalizer.
and irrespective of any large variation
in the speed of the machines
"A mechanical genius that the Bos-
ton Herald knows is at work on an in
teresting bicycle attachment: A small
electric machine is to be placed under
the saddle. and operated by connector
with the tire. The electricity thus gen.
Grated is reserved in a storage battery,
and used to assist the rider in elm bing
hills No power is lost. as the device
is to be so arranged that the connection
with the tire can be made when de-
scending the hills; this acts as a brake
and utilizes the surplus energy.
Prof. Elisha Gray remarks that
electrical science has made a greater
advance in the last twenty years than
in all the six thousand historic years
preceding. More is discovered in one
day now than in one thousand years
formerly. We find all sorts OF work
for electricity to do. We make it carry
our messages, drive our engines, ring
our door bell and scare the burglar; we
take it as a medicine light our gas with
it. see by it, hear from it. talk with it,
and now we are beginning to teach it
to write What will it not vet be doing
for US?
The London Electrician describes
and illustrates an electromagnetic for
use in eye surgery, brought ont by Ia.
ham Thompson. of Cardiff. being I.
modified form of SMELLS instrument
1t is about two and half inches long
and weighs five ounces. 1t has been
successfully used to ascertain whether
the foreign body is of steel or of nom
masTetiza bic metal: to move the frag-
Inent from an inaccessible part of tho
eye for one favorable for it's extraction.
and to remove it from the surface or
even the retina of the eve without cut
ting or decorating the delicate tissues
Eugene and Paul Champion. Of
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. have pro-
posed a series of electrical, fireworks for
theChicago exposition. Neither gunpovv-
der. dynamite or other explosive mater
ial - used in producing the dazzling -
fects An operator sits at an instru-
ment something like piano and by
multiplication of the keys produces de-
signs of the most gorgeous fashion
The whole machine is run By electric
ity. One of the pieces suggested is 4
representation OF Chicago as statue of
fire This is to be surrounded by other
figures of flame. each representing =
state of the Union. Chicago will bs
represented as receiving the homagn Of
all the great powers of the world, each
filing past the statue and assem- Uled
states