The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1891-07-29
IN THE ELECTRICAL WORLD.

i ~ 666S nUSbAS "OtSIOe
Air brakes on electric street cars
are to be introduced on Pittsburgh
roads.
1t is stated ON excellent authority
that over one-fourth of the street rail-
roads now operating in the United
States use electricity for motive power
"A company has secured charter
from the legislature of Ontario giving
i 1t permission to construct an electric
road the entire length of the Niagara
| river.
During thunder storm at McMinn-
vile, Ore, the electric light wires were
struck, and the shock was carried along
! to station a mile away. deranging the
plant and plunging the city into dark
ness.
The national powder mill at st.
Medarden-Jalle, in France, has recently
been lighted by inca.lescent lamps, and
is believed to be the first mill of it's
kind on the continent to use electric
lighting.
The collection of electrical appara-
tus on exhibition at Frankfort-on- the.
Main has been insured against fire and
damages by explosion to the extent OF
$780, 900 marks. The risk has. been
| undertaken by twenty-three of the
principal German insurance Offices.
An odd kind of headgear has been
adopted for the use of the Italian garri-
son artillery. This is neither more nor
less than a telephone bonnet" which
is worn by the gun detachment COM
manders, so that they may be in con-
slant communication with the officer
commanding the battery or fort.
An ingenious apparatus has been
+ introduced to prevent the wheels of
electric and other street cars from slip
ping. 1t consists of revolving brush
connected with the forward axle by a
belt As the axle revolveS it sets the
brushes in motion, clearing a path for
the wheels There is also operated in
connection with the device box which
allows the escape of q sufficient amount
| Of sand or salt without the slightest
| waste.
OF all the European countries Swe
den has proportionately to its popula-
ton the most extensive telephone sys-
tenn. For the further perfection of tho
service the General Telephone Co.. in
Stockholm. now offers to put apparatus
in subscribers houses for $2. as per year
| each. The tariff for each call will be
"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.
London was slow to accept the cleo
trio light, but is now making up for
lost time. At the general meeting of
| the Metropolitan Co. the chairman re-
ported that within year the mum Der
of the lamps supplied by them had in
! creased from 5000 to 10000. AS to their
system of underground mains. he said
that the length of the conduit at pres
ent laid was forty miles, and into these
| conduits there had been laid ninety
miles of mains and not one fault or
leakage had occurred.
"A startling electrical display oc-
CURED in front of store on Pearl
street, Albany. N. Y. A boy caught
hold of the iron hosting bar of the
awning and tried to raise himself up in
order to look into the window. There
is an electric light in front, and the iron
frame of the awning became connected
| with it. In an instant flashes of electric
ity flew out of the boys feet with deto-
nations like pack of crackers. He was
completely charged with the fluid, and
could not let go his hold. A bystander
caught hold Of him and pulled him
away, but in doing so received a shock
himself and was knocked into
the street. The boy was dazed and
stunned, but was soon restored, and
walked to his home apparently I'M
injured. The voltage which passed
through him was about $500.
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