The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1892-04-09
IN THE ELECTRICAL WORLD.

--The post office department at Wash
/ ington is trying mechanical letter
stamping machine operated by elec.
tricity.
1T is reported that the Spanish gov
ernment has undertaken considerable
extension of the telegraph system by
the construction of several new lines
and the establishment of $50 new sta
tions. The telephone system is also to
be greatly extended.
"A pool table with electric push but
tons arranged in front of the pockets
has been put on the market. When a
ball runs over push button an cleo
trio contact is made, and the play is re-
corded by an annuuciator on the wall
The score of the game is thus kept
automatically.
If the proper permission can be Sc
cured, it looks as though the managers
OF Swedish railroad would have the
honor of first replacing, on q large
scale, steam railroads with electric
roads. road is to be built between
Stockholm and Diursholm, and the
work of equipping it as an electric road
will be began as soon as the right to do
so has beed granted by the authorities.
The Electrical Worlds London COR
respondent cables, under date of Janu.
ary II, 1892, that the tramways commit
tee of the Glasgow (Scot.) municipality
has, after long deliberations, lasting
over the greater part of 1891, practical
ly decided to try the accumulator or
storage battery system on large scale.
1t has been discussed from time to time
at their various deliberations, but this
last conclusion is very recent. A Lon
don firm has offered to run cars for
sd. (10 cents per car mile.
Electricity in legitimate medical
practice is being more largely employed
than ever One of the recent applica-
tions in this direction is for the treat
ment of deafness. The apparatus for
this purpose comprises n battery,a a belt,
an electric supporter on the belt and
shaped to rest on the ear, an opening
on one side to receive the ear, and con-
nections between the electrode and the
battery This provides convenient
and efficient mode of receiving the cur
rent, which can be applied in finely
| graduated strength.
Electric heating is the coming new
development in electrical science, and
electricians are talking of wonderful
things in that line as possibilities of
the near futune. They assert conf
IDENTIFY that, before long, houses, Of
fees and stores, street and railway
cars will be heated, as well as lighted,
by electricity. Not only that, but all
| cooking may be done by the same
| agency. 1t may at first cost more for
the new energy to heat and cook with,
but it has SO many advantages, and can
be maintained under such perfect con-
troll, that the trifiug difference in cost
over present methods will not be
thought of.
| Electricity as tractive agent, is, it
is said, about to be tried in this coun-
| try in such a manner as will allow of a
| comparison with steam service over'the
same route. 1t is announced that the
| Pennsylvania Railroad Co., which owns
the Jersey City & Bergen railroad, in
Jersey City, N. ia line now operated
by electricity--will build a trolley road
from Jersey City to Newark. For more
than half the distance the line will run
across Hackensack meadows and
through unsettled districts, where the
maximum speed of which the electric
system is capable will be permissible.
The most promising field for the cleo
trio motor is in towns where the use of
a steam motor is forbidden, and on the
projected line electric traction may be
subjected to comparison with steam
power on the basis of economy.