The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1893-07-22
BAY ST LOUIS MISS, SATURDAY, JULY 22 1se3
IN THE ELECTRICAL WORLD,

IN THE ELECTRICAL WORLD.
The Niagara Falls and Buffalo eleo-
trio road has just secured franchise to
lay tracks.
"A 50O-mile telephone line from San
Francisco to Los Angeles, Cal, is to be
built this season.
-Hopkinton, Ashland and South
by an electric road.
The legislature of the Wooden Nut
meg state refuses to allow electric rail-
roads to carry freight.
An inventor of Worcester, Mass,
has patented bracket to prevent the
trolley from jumping the wire at cross
ings and side-tracks
Germany is experimenting with a
new telephone wire with an aluminum-
bronze core, covered with a copper
bronze envelope. Increased conduc-
tivity with great tensile strength is OBJ
tanned.
Telegraph was introduced into
japan twentyfour years ago; there are
now 1922 miles of land telegraph lines,
averaging over three wires to each
line, exclusive of the government lines
and those owned by private railway.
companies.
-Procopius Diwisch, Bohemian
priest, is reported to have discovered
that lightning and electricity are iden-
tlcal as long ago as June Is, 1854, and
to have constructed lightning rod.
This antedates Franklin, but Diwisch
seems to have made no use of this dis
covery If the report be correct.
The youngest of the great electri-
cal inventors in this country is Nicolas
Tesla, who has made fortune and is
less than thirty-fve years old. He was
born IN Montenegro and was educated
in Hungary. For ten years he worked
with Edison. He has been working for
himself for the past five years.
-Gen. Thomas r. Eckert, the new
president of the Western Union Tele-
graph Co., is one of the Oldest tele-
graph operators in the world. He
learned how to handle the key in 1S49,
and has been actively engaged in the
business almost ever since. During
the war he was in charge of the mill
tary telegraph, and for short time
was assistant secretary of war; He has
been with the Western Union since
1886.
TO make artificial diamonds about
two hundred grammes of a mixture of
cast iron and carbonized sugar is placed
in crucible of carbon, resting in a
bed of magnesia, the whole being placed
in specially designed furnace heated
by an electric arc light to about three
thousand degrees centigrade. After
five or six minutes subsection to this
intense heat the crucible and it's con-
tents are plunged very quickly into
cold water. The interior is thus sub.
jected to high pressure, which solidifies
the carbon. On dissolving the metal
with acid number of very small dia-
monds are found.
The Electrical Review says: "More
than sixty years ago James Ross ap-
proximately ascertained the position of
the north magnetic pole. The leading
authorities have endorsed Col. w. H.
Glider, who, with Lieut.. Schwatka, in
1879, made observations in King Will
liam Land, as thoroughly competent to
undertake a magnetic survey of the
area containing the north magnetic
pole, and trip into the Arctic regions
is projected. The coast and geodetic
survey of the United States will sup
ply the necessary instruments and OBJ
servers. The party will reach their
field OF work over ground already gone
over by Col. Glider, and it is estimated
that the cost of the expedition will be
about s25, 900, which sum will be raised
by voluntary subscriptions. The deter
mination of the true magnetic north
pole will no doubt prove of consider
able scientific value, and the account
of the survey will be of great use to
the interested public