The Globe-republican., 1891-08-05
IN THE ELECTRICAL WORLD.

I'm . London electric-lighting plant
the dynamo ran without rest for twen-
ty-seven days and seventeen and three
quarter hours
The number of telephones now un-
der rental by the Bell Telephone Co is
AS. rs. an increase Of IS, SIS 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 Incaniescent Electric
Lighting
Experiments at the McGill univer-
sity. Montreal. show that signal
may be flashed through the round cir
cult of 5000 miles of ocean cable in the
average time Of only Los seconds,
Mayor Hibbard- 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 incan-
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 a 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 ]. Pope. and nearly
a score of others are named as having
begun their electrical studies AID 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 sa,5 per year
each The tariff for each call will De
"a 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 in
Iowa, no gas works or electric light
plants shall be established by any city
or town until majority of the legal
voters thereof at a general or special
election. shall decide in favor of the
improvement The council may order
the question whether such gas works
or electric light plant shall be estab-
Eshed by the city or town submitted to
a vote at any general election TO- that
purpose.
Can it be possible that wind alone
can completely strip the feathers from
Never; but it is possible for electricity
to do this Place man or q woman on
an insulated stool so that the electricity
will not pass through the body ~ the
earth, and then heavily charge the body
with electricity and every hair
of the head will stand out like
iron spikes or the sized hair
of the Circassian show girl No
doubt if the electric charge should be
increased it would drive every hair out
Of the head, and this is the reason that
SO many chickens are stripped by tor
nadoes-Fort Worth Gazette.
A novel and simple form OF electric
battery has recently been invented in
Italy. 1t consists of conical vessels of
cast iron and porous earthenware, with
nitric and sulphuric acid An iron cone
is placed point downward in stand.
and is partly filed with strong nitric
acid Into this there is placed cone of
porous earthenware containing dilute
sulphuric acid Then follows an iron
cone. surmountd by an earthenware
and so on in series. each vessel CON-
tanning its respective acid 1t follows
that the inner surface of each iron ves-
sci is bathed in nitric acid. and becomes
passive, acting the part of the platinum
or carbon in an ordinary cell The out
er surface is attacked by the dilute sui
phurIc acid. and takes the place of the
zinc. There are no connections to
make, the simple building of the pile
aIl Tho ;-.a