The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-02-04
IN The eLEoTRloAL WORLD.

Japan, It is said, will soon have two
roads to be operated by the trolley sys-
tenn, and the cars will be heated by
electricity
"A Yankee, by name John Beattie,
has applied for a patent on contriv-
ance to prevent that whirring sound in
the telephone wires that parallel trolley
wires used for street car purposes
According to the Electrical World,
the statement is made by the president
of the New York & Brooklyn Bridge
Co. that within two years electricity
will be the only motive power for the
bridge cars
DR. Earnest Werner Won Siemens,
the eminent electrician, died recently at
Berlin. His first notable invention was
made when he was twenty-five years of
age being then associated with his
brother who was only eighteen.
1t is stated that there are now Al
electric railway franchises asked for, to
be brought before the Connecticut leg
islature. Many of these will be com
petitive, and, of course will not be
granted, but those that will will create
brisk demand in that state for cleo
trio railway material
The Japanese government has sent
to this country within the last few
years a number of its brightest young
men, some of whom have taken honors
in their respective collegiate courses.
The government is fitting out cable
laying steamer to be manned by native
engineers and electricians.
The success of the electric trolley
road between St Paul and Minneapolis
is so pronounced that the short line
service over the steam railroad is said
| to have been abandoned, the regular
through trains now taking such passen-
gers as may wish to travel the ten miles
in that way at the niger rate of fare.
Reports still come in of the electric
al impostor who appears in various
localities with inventions greater than
the Bell telephone or the Edison light
sells little stock and then disappears.
England is now infected with him,
| together with other and older electric
frauds heretofore we'll known in this
country.
"A miniature thunder factory has
been constructed for the science and
art departments at South Kensington,
England, with plates seven feet in di-
ameter, which, it is believed, would
give sparks thirty inches long, but no
Leyden jars have been found to stand
it's charge, all being pierced by an enor-
nous tension.
An electric invalid chair has been
invented. The guiding apparatus is
like that of an ordinary low-seated tri-
cycle, and at one side of the seat is a
lever connected with a resistance box
| for controlling the motor. The motor is
wound for low electromotive force,
and is of slow speed design, connected
to the driving shaft by single reduc-
ton gearing. The storage batteries
are placed under the seat, and at the
rate of eight miles an hour are calcu-
lated for fifty miles of traveL-Elec-
trical Review.
"A Buffalo man has invented an in
strument which he calls a "telephotus. :"
1t is designed for communication be-
tween vessels at sea, for lighthouses,
| lightships and for general employment
in the United States signal service. The
apparatus consists of JOG incandescent
=
lamps, which are operated by key
| board something on the principle of u
| typewriter A code of signals founded
on the Morse telegraph alphabet is used,
and experiments have shown that sig
nails can be read for distance of Is
| miles.
Among the novelties in the use OF
electricity as an illuminant in England
is an electric bicycle lamp, which is
said to give brilliant, intense and
steady light The lamp is connected to
the battery by means of cord with a
plug at the end, which fits into the ter
minal of the cells The accumulator is
contained in leather bag firmly
secured in place by straps A switch at
the bottom of the lantern enables the
rider to turn the light on or off when
at full speed. The lamp is so arranged
that the wheelman may detach it in a
very short time, and without experience
| ing much trouble.