Sharp County record., 1891-04-02
IN THE ELECTRICAL WORLD.

France for an electric furnace for the
rapid incineration of human remains,
A professor in the Lemberg poly
technic academy processes to have dis
covered a successful method OF photo
graphing by electromagnetic.
Henry Kramer lineman, recently
received an electric shock at Louisville,
Kv.. and has become hopelessly insane,
believing he is pursued by an electric
ghost.
An electric street railway car can
be heated by the expenditure OF one
horse power of electrical energy. There
is no dust, no cinders, and no room
is taken from the seating accommoda-
tions.
A new idea in arc lamps is the sub
stitution of hollow carbon cylinder
for the usual upper carbon point and
disc for the lower rod. The edges OF
the cylinder and disc are in contact, and
the light is formed at that point.
The discovery of electrical tanning
which reduces the time of the process
from many months to few days has
its counterpart in the alleged discovery
of process by which the time OF the
manufacture of champagne is reduced
from eight months to forty hours.
"A waiter at one Of the hotels in Gin
cinnati came up to the clerk early last
evening and said that one of the cleo
tric lamps in the dining-room wouldn't
burn because it hadn't been filled"
Inquiry developed that what he meant
was that new carbons had not been put
in.
1t has been calculated that the cleo
tro-motive force of bolt Of lightning
is about 3,5OO,O0O volts, the current
about IA, 100000 amperes and the time
to be one-twenty thousandth part of a
second. In such a bolt there is an
energy of 2,45O, 900, 900 watts, or S,2S4,-
1S2-h.p.
In handling any wire lying over
any of the ordinary street wires espec-
tally such as convey currents for cleo
tric lighting, use dry hand line for the
purpose, or grasp the wire with the
insulated pincers. An ordinary clothes
line may become the conductor OF
deadly current.
"A system of electric cabs has been
introduced in Stuttgart, with degree
of success that promises the permanent
relegation of the cab horse to other
fields of usefulness. The new vehicles
are already popular, though at present,
their novelty has much to do with the
patronage they receive.
We can take the condenser or
leyden jar and store up electricity in
any quantity, and keep it there for a
considerable time, and then discharge
it at will, We can not do SO with light
or magnetism, and yet we know that
all of these are the one and same thing
with only a difference Of degree, e,-Elec-
trical Age.
The electric motor is a formidable
rival Of the gas engine, the hot air en-
gine, and the small steam engine; but
it has not displaced the large-sized
steam engine anywhere. On the con-
trary, the building of these has been
greatly stimulated by the demand for
electric light and power stations.
Street-car motors of ten or twenty
horse power are common enough, but
no one has yet yentured to replace the
steam locomotive, generating from a
hundred to thousand horse-p power
Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph.
An experiment in long-distance tel
ephoning in combination with the phon-
ograph took place in Orange, N. j., re-.
Gently. James B. Dill, the legal ad.
wiser OF the New York and New Jersey
telephone company, connected the long.
distance telephone in his house with
the transmitter Of his phonograph and
through the central station was con-
nected with Trenton, Philadelphia,
New York, Jersey City, Yonkers and
finally Boston. A large number Of
photographic cylinders were repro
duced, and the reports from all the sta
tions were that the records were re-
ceived with perfect clearness, except in
the case Of Boston, where the circuit
was frequently broken on account Of
the pressure of commercial business,
Another electrical engineer, c. 0.
Mailloux, indorses the opinion Of Edi-
son that the real solution of rapid
transit demands it to be found in under
ground roads run by electricity. The
invention Of electric motors il should
be observed, has removed the chief OBJ
lection to tunnels, which was that the
smoke from engines made it difficult to
ventilate them except at great cost.
With electric motors there would be no
products OF combustion to be taken
care of, ventilation would become n
simple matter, tunnel and cars could be
made as light as day by electric lights
consuming no oxygen, and trains could
be kept running continuously without
danger OF collision by the use OF double
tracks and an electrical block system, -
PHILADELPHIA Iedper