St. Paul daily globe., 1893-05-01
ELECTRICITY.
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Could Ajax but step within the portals
of the magnificent temple of electricity
at the Worlds Columbian exposition,
he would scarcely have the audacity to
defy the modern lightning, bridled as it
is by science. Its wonderful force
would certainly appall any but a god,
for within this building are displayed
machines and engines aud cOntrivances
marvellous in their power to perform
mans bidding. The electrical dis
play far su1passes anything the
management of the great fair had
ever hoped to secure. There is in
this place of wonders everything
in the way of an electric cOntrivance,
from Benjamin Franklin'S lightning
rod, the first instrument of the COM
mercial application of electricity, down
to Edison's latest achievement, the
kinetograph and electrical Synchron-
ism. In this building so per cent of the
exhibits have arrived and, according 10
q statement prepared by Supt. Barrett,
60 per cent of them are installed. An
outsider who looks into the vast struct-
ure would scarcely place the estimate
SO high,as there is such chaos of boxes
about. 1t is also estimated by Supt.
Barrett that the exhibits will all be in
place and that the building will be COM
plete in its entirety within ten days.
Several BIG Displays.
Of the foreign countries here repre-
sented, Germany will have the largest
display. 1t has $4,000 square feet Of
space. France comes next with $1,000
square feet and England third with
6,O0O square feet. Austria, Spain and
Italy each have 1000 square feet. The
United States leads them all with 10000
square feet. Among the wonders Of
the electric exhibition will be the most
powerful search light ever made. The
protector of this light measures six feet
in diameter. the light is of 100000
candIe-power, and so strong are its rays
that it is said an ordinary newspaper may
be read by it at distance of seventy
five miles. 1t was made in Nuremburg,
Germany, but the greatest wonder of
the exhibit is EdisOn'S latest born, the
kinetograph. 1t Is combination cam
era, photograph and electrical synchro-
nism, by means of which speaker can
be photographed forty times second,
while the phonogTaph takes his words
with all the modulati0nS OF his voice.
Then there is stereopticon attached,
by which the photographs taken are re-
produced on a screen at the rate OF
forty-seven a second, while the phono-
graph reproduces the speakers words.
In word, the machine will produce
Living Picture
with a living voice.
Then there is long-distance, loud
| speaking telephone, by which a party
of people may sit in room in Chicago
| and listen to a concert or lecture deliv-
cred in New York OF Boston.
In the center of the building will be
a cut-glass tower, eighty feet in height
and thirty feet square at the base. In
this tower will be $4,000 incandeScent
lights. There will be, exclusive of
these, 10000 ipcandescent lights scat
tered throughout the building, and 700
arc lights.
The feature of the electrical display
which will attract the women will be
the household appliances. Here will be
shown instruments which will make
matches, fuel and fire unnecessary
articles about the modern home.
One exhibitor will show complete
| electric dining room service, which will
! dispense with the necessity of servant
Another firm has on exhibition a dish
washer, by which dishes can be cleanSed
and dried without labor Oh the part of
the operator. There will be
Electric Cooking Appliances,
laundry and fiat irons heated by cleo
tricity Iron workers will be interested
/ in the electric welding and forging ma
| chimes, and the machines operated by
electricity, by which all classes of black
smithing are done without the use of
fire or forge.
In the historical department will be
the original telegraph instrument made
by Samuel f. b. Morse, and the Cyrus
W. Field collection of apparatus used