The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-08-20
IN THE ELECTRICAL WORLD.


Mine steam railroads in the west
are using electric headlights.
History fails to record that any
Indian has ever been killed by light
ming.
Crude stealite (soapstone) is en-
ployed in Europe for the manufacture
of electric insulators.
The first electric car in South
America appeared on the streets OF
Panama on the 27th of last April
in the northern English coal field
electric coal-cutting machinery is about
to be introduced on a large scale.
"A company has been granted per-
mission to experiment with electric om-
nibuses in London the coming summer.
There is reported to be movement
on foot to organize an opposition COM
pany to the Bell telephone in Montreal.
The Faure patent on storage bat
teries has been upheld in Germany,
where it has been in the courts for some
time.
Owing to a dispute in relation 10
back taxes the city of Philadelphia has
stopped payment for its telephone
service.
The only trolley system in England
Is at Leeds, where it has proved very
popular, and is so profitable that an ex-
tension of the line to the heart of the
city is to be made.
General Manager Ainslee of the
Wisconsin Central railroad is reported
to have said recently: 81 think we shall
run trains on the Wisconsin Central by
electric power before the Columbian eX-
position is over"
"A submarine cable between Sene-
gal on the west coast of Africa, and
Pernambuco, Brazil, is about to be laid,
and it is expected that the work will be
completed by the middle of July. The
cable is 2, 1868 miles long
The municipal council of st. Etienne,
France, has decided upon an interesting
experiment, which is to distribute cleo
trical power to $4,000 looms, scattered
about in the homes of the inhabitants,
10000 of whom are engaged i'll the rib
bon industry. The power is to be sup
piled from the city reservoirs.
Some interesting and rather sur
prising statistics are published on the
use of the telephone. In Germany,
Switzerland, Norway and Sweden, from
100 to 400 persons in every 100, 900 of the
population are subscribers. In Great
Britain only 5s persons in 100, 600 use the
telephone. In Berlin II, and in Paris
40 out Of every 100000 inhabitants
use 1t.
The English board OF trade has just
decided that the commercial unit OF
electricity, formerly known as the
"board of trade unit" is hereafter to be
called "kelvin." The unit itself is
one kilowatt hour, that Is, 1000 watt
hours, and its new name Is the present
title of the well-known Sir William
Thomson, now Lord Kelvin.
World.
M. Plantes new process Of engra-
ing on glass and crystal by electricity
is found capable of producing results
of marvellous delicacy. The plate to be
engraved is covered with Il concentrated
solution of nitrate of potash and put
in connection with one of the poles OF
the battery, the design being traced ont
with n fine platinum point connected to
the other pole.
From the last annual report of the
Bell Telephone Co. it appears that the
number of instruments in use at the
close of the year 1891 was 5l2, 4O7-a
large increase over the previous year
The total earnings for the year were
s4,375, 900. The expenses were s1,5O5,
s72, leaving the net earnings at s2,s69,
41S The extension of the long-dis
tance telephone system is rapidly pro.
pressinp