The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-04-01
IN 11EELEcTR,cAL WORLD

The astronomers of warnerss OBJ
servatory at Rochester, n. Y. have
asked the local electric light conpan1es
to adopt shades for their electric lights,
iclaiming that the CLEANS of light thase-
from make accurate observations inn-
possible. S.. r.-s- -=- ----5k
The Compagnie Translantique has
again brought forward the question of
I Fighting the Atlantic route from Ire
land to Newfoundland. 1t is proposed
to have ten powerful floating lights two
hundred miles apart, and connect them
| by electricscables- r-.-- g.
"A new system of train starring has
been inaugurated in the Dearborn sta
ton in Chicago. A large clock in the
train dispatcher's office1runs by cleo
| tricity. Connecting wires extend to
large gongs in the, different waiting
rooms and in the train. sheds. Two
| minutes before the train starts the diff
ferent gongs ring in all parts of the
| building. s-A~
"A patent for = process of uniting
broken pieces Of arc light carbons has
| recently been granted. BY this process
the fragments of carbon are combined
| to any desired lengths by means of q
paste composed of pulverized- carbon
and coal tar, mixed in about equal
parts and applied hot, after which Che
carbons are baked until the p9ste
hardenS.
1t is said that the Chilian govern
| ment is considering the sahjectgEof
lighting by electricity the dangerous
straits. of Magellan. AS its. greatest
coal deposits are on the northern shores
of the straits, this can be cheaply eff
fected. Such a system would, of course.
| be hailed with delight by the mariners
| who would use that passage between
the two great oceans 80 go .z-gx
THE state of Massachusetts,, as
viewed from a balloon" says the Elec-
| trical Review, will soon present the
appearance of a huge -gridiron,- if. all
the trolley schemes now in contempl;s-
| tion are carried out. Hamlcts win be
| connected by rapid transit with vii
lagos, villages with towns and towns
| with cities, until business man living
| in the interior of the state can take his
family to the seaside for airing via
the trolley cars"
Austria announces an electric loco
motive which is to travel 125 miles an
f,A- "'"e Independence Beige follows
nOur. - 80 I'll, IS->1
with the statement that the Nor.-.xsa-
gian Co. and the North France Co. are
constructing line for locomotives.
operated by electricity, on which the
journey from Brussels to Paris, about
1872 miles, will be accom- plished1 in
eighty minutes, speed of nearly. $50
miles an hour. 1t is further sta ted that
the trains will berunning in about two
months. .-. lad. --z .f-sr5-1sA
The new system of electric street
lighting which is to be introduced on
Fifth avenue, New York, will employ
two lamps instead of one arc lamp on
each post. In this way more effective
light and better diffusion are expected,
SO that shadows will not be noticeable.
The wires are to be concealed from
view, and connected underground to the
low voltage mains of the Edison COM
pany. Each lamp will take about SO
volts. and the pairs willabe connected
up in series and the system multiple, SO
that no wire will carry over 10 volts
electric pressure. s.. ..r .rrss--5------
The Westinghouse Electric s. Man
ufacturing Co. recently exhibited its
new lamp and its Worlds fair generat-
ors at the old Westinghouse air brake
shops in Allegheny, Pa, where the gem
orators are under construction There
are IL of the large genera ators, each
having a maximum capacity of $1,000
16-candle-powcr lamps, and with the u
1,OOO-horse-powere engines required to
drive them will form the largest single
exhibit of machinery ever shown at an
exposition. The weight of each dyna-
mo will be about 10000 pounds. and
the armature, the largest single piece
of each machine, is about 90 inches az
feet) in diameter, and weighs AZ, 1000
pounds.
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