Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1892-12-30
CHAINED LIGHTNING.
USED IN THE CULINARY ART.
The Carpenter Process as Applied to
Cooking and Heating Demonstrates
the Latest Applications Of
Electricity.
From the Pioneer Press.

from the Pioneer Press. 81 v
The conquest Of achievements Of G
electricity in RELOCATING old methods y
% oblivion or the antiquarian's shelf t
have been numerous. But its work 6
Of revolution still goes on. The lat
est is the establishment in St Paul Of
the plant of the Carpenter Electric
Heating and Cooking. company, To-
Gated at the corner Of Exchange and
Fourth streets. 1t is now employing
sixty men, but SO rapid has been its
development that it soon expects. to
employ 1000 hands, At present it
occupies five floors eighty feet in
length and forty in width. The
heating devices and cooking utensils
which it is now manufacturing are Of
twenty-seven different kinds.
Electricians have known for many
years that heat could be obtained
from electricity, but how to conduct
it safely and economically has been
the problem, and all this they claim
has been solved by the Carpenter pro-
cess, as the heat is conducted directly
to the parts requiring the heat with
no less by radiation. Take, for ms
lance, among the numerous articles
they are manufacturing, the oven
which is made of we'll seasoned wood,
lined with asbestos covered with sheet
iron, with two heating plates side 10y
side on the bottom and top, and these
plates may be heated at will by turn
ing the switch placed on the outside
Of the oven, so that the operator may
have heat on the bottom on the top or
both. A glass door and an incandes-
cent light is placed inside Of the oven
so that the baking may be watched
Experience has proven that after
hours of baking and roasting the oven
can be carried round from place to
place with no danger Of burning the
hands. The oven door never needs
to be open. and consequently there
+ are no fumes in the house.
INGENIOUS APPLIANCES.
, In the broilers, grirddles, skillets,
tea kettles, coffee pots and numerous
other convenient cooking utensils
there is only one-eight of an inch Of
metal between the food one is cooking
and the heated wire. This is accomp.
lished by completely covering the bot
) tom underneath the utensil with &
, zigzag wire and embedding it il
) enamel Of a quality that will expand
and contract with the heat and colo
t OF the wire without cracking, thu
, doing away with the stove or range
Cooking may be done on any ordinary
3 table in any room in the house.
The Carpenter people are also max
ing electric pressing irons of all kind
such as goose irons polishing iron
f and hat irons. These are kept at
uniform heat while ironing by damp
ness in clothes carrying off the surplu
heat. The superintendent assert
that people who have been using thes
. irons for over year claim that the,
o can iron twice as fast, and do. ava,
with FIVE or six irons which they form
o erly used by the old method.
q The Carpenter Electric Health,
= company make the broad claim q
economy, durability, speed and clean
q illness, far surprising the old methods
!, They assert that there is no more car
: rying Of coal, and the coal trusts an
combines will soon be destroyed.
4 This apparatus can he used on a.
electric light wire which may be il
the house. Their apparatus, they as
sert, is used in heating electrical car
in twenty-five states, among the nea
cities which they are used being Nil
waukee, Wis, and Cedar Rapid.
), Iowa.
ON A SIMPLE PRINCIPAL.
. The philosophy Of this method col,
. sists in the use Of a resistance or frie
y ton wire which is composed larely {
: German silver. If the wire use
were copper, for instance, it woul
produce very little heat, since cope
# is the greatest conductor known
e electricity.
IS This factory is the only one in Il,
: in the world, and st Paul has il
: The company is very enthusiastic i
= its belief that it will revolutioniz,
a the cooking and heating Of the worlo
W It certainly seems to have sprung sud
denly into its present state of deve]
opment. At stages Of its evolution
!, may not have always been successful
s Forty thousand dollars, they asser
e has been expended IN experimental