Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-01-17
IN THE ELECTRICAL WORLD.

Siam keeps up with the procession.
She is to have an electric railroad thirty
miles long.
China has 1855 telegraph stations.
The system is mainly controlled by the
government and the operators are all
Danes,
The first electric street railway in
Chicago began to run its cars recently
over about three and one-half miles Of
track.
Queen Victoria has at last announced
that she is decidedly averse to having
the electric light introduced into Wind
sor Castle.
AN English Company has made o
proposal to the Legislature of the island
OF Nassau to lay cable to the coast Of
Florida If an annual subsidy is granted
it.
"A large mining company has ar
ranged for the introduction of the cleo
trio light into its pits in place Of allow
ing each miner to carry his own lamp,
as was heretofore the custom. The
light will be placed along the roads, the
lamps being fifteen yards apart.
"A patent has been granted for an
electrical drill for oil wells. The de-
vice consists of a series of motors in tan
dem, connected in such way as to make
one motor. The design has been to get
the power within six-inch diameter,
so that the entire mechanism, which
much resembles common boiler, can
be lowered in the we'll and the power
can be applied at the bottom. The drill
bits are firmly fastened on the rod, which
is worked rapidly in and out of cylin-
der, after the manner Of piston-rod
Tits gratifying to the large number of
American electricians who have watch
ed, with confidence in its eventful re-
suit, the huge Ferrani scheme at Dept
ford, England, for supplying current at
exceedingly high voltages, to know that
the operation of the Ferreni mains has
passed the experimental stage. Thirty
miles of mains have been laid down, and
out of 5000 joints only fifteen have been
found to be faulty. Several of these
have been due to no electrical trouble,
but to the carelessness of the men in
forgetting to remove the cotton waste
from the socket end. There has been
but one single fault from the inner to
the outer conductor and this was due to
moisture. Y. Sun.
Electric Bower describes a new sys
tenn Of reporting baseball and other
games by means of an ingenious cleo
trical apparatus This device is intend
ed not only to indicate the progress o.
distant games, but to enlighten the
spectators on many points on which they
are liable to be momentarily in doubt
All issues upon which the baseball en-
thusiast expends such intense solicitudC
can now be clearly and reliably record
ed, and all anxiety and uncertainty cal
be removed by glance at the exhibi
tion board placed in sight of the Who'll,
concourse Of spectators, the indicator
on which are electrically controlled
and operated by an experienced person
located close to the diamond.
The submarine system Of the worlC
embodies 100, 070 nautical miles of cable
of which various government admins
, trations own and operate 1854 miles
while the remainder is in the hands o
private companies. The total cost o
these cables is estimated to be 5000, 900,
900. The Eastern Telegraph Company
which owns the cable between Englan
. and India, operates 81, $50 miles, with
} far east extension OF ~, 95S miles more
Africa is completely surrounded by sui
marine cables, with an occasional branc
to the coast, the last link having bee
finished to Cape Town only last year
To encircle the dark continent II,
= miles of cable was required, and doze
or more companies, Backed and aided b
I the British, French, Spanish and Portr
guese Governments, participated in tn
n work. The North Atlantic is spanne
by II cables, all laid since 1870, an
footing up an aggregate of over 5000
8 miles between North America an
u Europe