The historic times. [volume] (Lawrence, Kansas) 1891-1891, 1891-07-25
IN The ELECTRICAL WORLD.

in a. London electric-lighting plant
the DYNAMO ran without rest for twen-
tv-seyen days and seventeen and three
I--The number of telephones now un-
der rental by the Bell Telephone Co. is
ATS. 725. an increase of 80, $50 over the
same time last year.
The Pittsfeld Electric Co. has is
| sued for distribution among its patrons
an excellent pamphlet entitled plain
Talks About Incandescent Electric
Lighting"
Experiments at the McGill univer-
sity. Montreal, show that signal
NAV be flashed through the round cir
cult of 5000 miles of ocean cable IN the
average time of only LOS seconds
Mayor. Hubbard, of Pittsfeld has
declared war against the electric light
and electric railroad companies of that
city for putting up poles along the city
streets without securing the permission
required by law.
1t has been shown that the mean
descent electric light does not smoke
the ceiling, as has been claimed, but
that the smoky effect is due to dust
The heated lamp causes current OF
heated air to arise, and the consequence
is. there is more dust deposited above
the lamp than anywhere else.
Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas
Edison. Elihu Thompson, Frank j.
Sprague. Franklin J. Pope, and nearly
a score of others are named as having
begun their electrical studies and ex-
periments as poor men. They are now
all wealthy, having taken the current
at time when it led on to fortune.
of all European countries Sweden
has proportionately to its population
the most extensive telephone system.
For the further perfection of the service
the General Telephone Co., in Stock
holm, now offers to put apparatus IN
subscribers houses for S2.75 per year
each. The tariff for each call will be
2h cents extra The lowness of the
price is the result of competition be-
tween the government telephone sys
tenn and the General Telephone Co.
According to the law recently en-
acted to regulate electric lighting II
Iowa, no gas works or electric hgh
plants shall be established by any city
or town until a majority OF the lega
, voters thereof, at a general or specia
election, shall decide in favor of th'
Improvement The council may orde
the question whether such gas work
or electric light plant shall be estab
lished by the city or town submitted t.
a vote at any general election for tina
purpose.
Can it be possible that wind alon
!, can completely strip the feathers from
a chicken and not hurt the fowl
, Never; but it is possible for electriclt.
to do this. Place a man or woman o.
!. an insulated stool so that the electricit
will not pass through the body to tn
earth, and then heavily charge the bod
with electricity and every hal
of the head will stand out lik
iron spikes or the sized hal
of the Circassian show girl. n
: doubt if the electric charge should b
increased it would drive every hair on
of the head, and this is the reason tina
i, SO many chickens are stripped by to-
nadoes- Fort Worth Gazette.
"A novel and simple form of electri
= battery has recently been invented
Italy. It consists of conical vessels {
cast iron and porous earthenware, wit
nitric and sulphuric acid. An iron con
is placed point downward in stan'
y and is partly flied with strong nitri
acid. Into this there is placed cone {
- porous earthenware containing dilut
- sulphuric acid. Then follows an iro
cone, surmounted by an earthenwa1
=, and SO on in a series, each vessel col
Il tanning its respective acid. 1t follow
that the inner surface of each iron We
T. sci is bathed in nitric acid, and become
e passive, acting the part of the platinum
- or carbon in an ordinary cell. The on
er surface is attacked by the dilute su
, phurlc acid, and takes the place of tt
zinc. There are no connections
make, the simple building of the pi
a putting all the parts into union.