The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1893-04-13
IN THE ELECTRICAL WORLD.

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Work has been begun at Bridge.
port CT, on putting the telephone
wires under ground, and it is expected
that the JOB will be finished early next
fall.
bursting balloons in the sky by
means OF electricity to produce rain,
and for destructive purposes in time Of
war, is said to have proved successful
in recent experiments made in Wash
!ngton.
"A powerful electric light Is to be
placed on the summit Of Mount Snow
den, in Wales, where it will be visi-
bic not only over great part OF
Wales and England. by;t fa~ over Ire
land also
Certain Baltimore capitalists, 1t is
reported, have formed q project to build
direct elevated railway, 70 be oper-
ated by electricity, between Chicago
and Milwaukee, distance Of 90 miles,
to be completed previous to the Worlds
&air
The Commercial! Union Telegraph
Co. is now planning to mount several
Of its Maine lincmen OF. bicycles These
will prove Of value in tracing break,
nnd will enable the m, to make quick
work 1t is also proposed to utilize sew
eral wheels in the me .senGcr service ac
Bar Harbor.
ELECTRICITY is the force that causes
oil storms, and thc sun and all the
planets throw an electric force into
space over their c0uatOrS, as does the
electro dynamo, and consequently
when any planet passes its equinoctical
the electric tension of the sun and OF
chat planet arc disturbed and stimuli
tancously the electric force Of every
planet in the solar system Is unbal-
anced, which affects the electric cur
rents of the earth. Washington Star.
"A method OF preventing the decom-
position of corpses and animal tissues
In general by the electro-deposition OF
metals on the same has been going the
rounds of the scientific press 81 this
and other countries. This is not oy
nny means new idea. A correspond
ent has called attention to the number
of times that history has repeated user
in this process OF turning corpscs INTO
metallic statues. and III doing so has
unearthcd patent Of about forty years
ago in which the process is set forth.
There are few electrical appliances
that elicit such widely varying opinions
from electricians rs the storage bat
terry. Some stoutly hold that 1or trac'
ton purposes the accumul"tor VIII
never be reduced TO Il commercial basis,
while others just as clnphatcally main
tain that it will inevitably be the III
most universal source Of power for city
electric lines 6; few years ,lcncc. Bo
this as it NAV the storage battery will
Enthusiastically come into general use
for lighting in the near future ana It
has already found Il place i'll The plant
of many electric light stations. AS
reserve when machinery is at rest us
regulators when running. it lnsurcs
that the consumer is never left in tho
dark. and in cases of brcalldowns III
machinery it is Indispensable
philadelphia scientists are prepar'
inr to find out how fast an electric cur
rent travels. An experiment will be
made. probably from the Franklin In
stitutc by connections over the Attain
tic cable to Liverpool and return. "A
recent test appeared to show that an
electric current shutfird over to Europe
md back in something like a second, or
ut the rate of only some 400, 600 miles
o. minute, while light ambles along at
ten-mllon-milc-a -minute gait Amer
lean scientists are not willing to give
Nd the record to sunlight. The most
recent experiment was tried at McGill
college, Montreal, to Liverpool and re-
turn. The distance travcrsed was s.
600 miles Time, second and 1-20 OF a
second. The conditions were not good.
Hence the necessity for another experi'
meut Some enthusiastic electricians
Claim that a current will speed around
the world in tritle over seconds or
cover the distance to the sun, yG, 600, OGo
miles in 81 minutes.