Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1893-09-20
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Lightning recently struck the
British ship oxford OF Cap HatterAs
and ruined every compass on board
The Westinghouse company had
perfected dynamo " hich autou,aticai.
~ produces just The amount II current
needed FOR any number q lights with.
In the capacity 81 the machine
The telegraph aud telephone Inca
Of Switzerland are owned and operAtcA
by the government There are ali
telegraph Offices and IA ps telephone
onices The prCats derived from thena
amount 20 more than t25o. 600 yearly.
"A party ~ eastern capitalists 10
Whiting the Grand canyon 81 Colorado
river 10 Investigate the feasibility n
laying an electric cable 500 miles along
the river with which o. drive small
boats through The Hack Canyon and
other scenic points
"A western inventor Is about o. talso
out patcntson prcccss FOR prolue-
Ing aluminium from its oxide. az = cost
much below that OF any present cleo
trical process ~ u said that hv the
new process aluminium can be- PIT on
the market AZ a price below that ~ cop
per. bulk for bulk.
some 900 buses Of the London Gen.
eral Omnibus Company have been dtted
with accumulntors FOR the purpose u
running electric lights az night only
ono lamp 81 siN-candlo power b. put
under the center Of each bus roof aud
the cost Of cquippinr and running each
bus is about si2 year
The method adopted hy an electric
lighting company OF London in LAYING
their connections consists ~ copper
strips conducted along their entire sya-
tenn Ina culvcrts under ground A ter
rier has been trained % do this work.
and carries the electric wires throu a
the cuiverts with the skin OF an sxps-
rienccd workman
An English medical Journal sug-
gests that the action Of electricity on
lead water pipes may sufficiently im-
prcgnate the water with lead % cause
poisoning Here a. a chance Tor soino
experiments with view 90 detcrmin-
ing whether water "a thus affected. on
not, under the conditions named ri
Ia, IL might result I'm cases Of serious ill-
ness, the cause OF which ordinarily
would bc difficult 20 determine.
Artificial miniature auroras OF tho
6orealis variety have been produced by
both De la Rive, the French savnnt.
and Lsnstrom, the Swedish astrono-
mer. In Prof Lcnstrom's experiments,
which were made In Finland. the peak
of high mountain was surrounded
with coil Of wire, pointed a. intervals
with tin nibs. The wire was then
charged with electricity. whereupon a
brilliant aurora appeared above the
mountain, In which spectroscopic an
alysis revealed the greenish yellow
rays 80 characteristic in natures dis
play OF northern lightA"
"A German professor, Prof. Braun.
has discovered that n a spiral Of wire
be elongated mechanically current
will lie produced In a. The creation a
the current Il not due 10 magnetic or
thcrmo-elcctric effects bus IL based
upon the fact that the bending 81 a
wire generates current in o. The
current generated I'm n left handed
spiral has been proven by experiments
70 move in % direction opposite - that
OF current developed in rightihand-
ed spiral Nickel wire IN said Go bee the
best for making experiments Ia this d.
rcction.
1t Is noteworthy fact that post-
norton examinations have been held
on the bodies Of electrocuted criminals
In a very short time after they were
/ shocked. Who. among us all can posi-
lively and certainly declare whether
life has left the body after passage
through 10 81 an electric CURRENT A
shock Of 1900 volts viii undoubtedly
kill some men. and may only stun
others Is there competent physician
who VIII state upon his honor that the
criminals who have been electrocuts.I
In New York state were dead when
they were carried from The chnir9-
Electrical Review
The projectors Of the sio. 600 600
Interior canal, 30 be built parallel 20
the coast Of California. couut on the
power produced by the flow al the
water from the level 81 The higher
locks 90 the lower 90 do great thIuvs
In the way Of furnishing tho territory
opened by the canal with electric lirht
and power The canal. say they. p,.II
be l75 miles long and viii ncccsslfnte a
series Of immense locks The surplus
water viii be first used 10 operate elcc-
trio generating plants. and will then
be used for the purposes % irrigation.
Prom the sale Of the electricity the
projectors count upon an income which
viii do much 20 help pny interest on
the sum invested and help meet cr.
penses. The canal. az planuod. VIII
run from suisun bag "a little 60 tas
northeast ~ san Francisco. in a south.
easternly direction down tho san Jan-
quin valley 90 Tulare lake and thcu 1n
% bakersfield. Several capitalists have
taken enough interest in the scheme Pro-
look into a.. but thus far The money
needed Tor constructing the canal has
not been raised.
Thry'd Never Get Through
Mrs. Strongmind Why should not
women do all thc piano-tuning in the
country? Fcll roe that?
Mrs DcNaFg They might manage
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