The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-01-19
IN THE ELECTRICAL WORLD.

"A London electrician has demon
strated that the hardest wood may b
readily sawed with platinum
plated steel-core wire, made red-hot By
electricity.
Eugene Baldwin, an amateur cleo
trician of Montreal has devised wind
wheel which, in connection with .
dynamo and storage batteries, fur
nishes all the lights he needs in his
house
The arrival of an American electric
launch in Venice from the Worlds fair
is said to have caused great enthusi-
asm- The mayor and aldermen of the
city paraded the streets or rather ca
mails, in the new craft
An electric freight railroad started
business few days ago in Knox coun-
ty, Me The Rockland, Thomaston and
Camden electric railroad, built original
~ for passenger traffic and so operated
for some little time. has added freight
and express business, and will run a
way-bilI freight over its road here
after.
The new submarine torpedo boat
built by Richard Radatz. it is said, has
had successful trial at Oshkosh. Wis
The boat is forty feet long, and is pro-
PEELED and lighted by electricity, the
storage battery system being employed
The boat at the trial carried three men
and remained under water nearly an
hour in perfect control, so it is re-
ported
Some months ago the Rochester
IN. " Railway Co. placed electric
heaters in a few of its cars Behind
the registers under the seats of the cars
are plates of iron which are heated by
alternating currents. The new method
of heating. it is said. has proved sue
cessful, and as fast as the stoves wear
out on those cars still retaining coal
stoves the electric heaters will be put
in.
1t is reported that electric power
will be tried on the Chesapeake & Ohio
canal, and that a company has been or
ganized in Baltimore, Md, to further
the project This enterprise has grown
out of the success of the experiments
with the trolley upon the Erie canal
1t is also reported that preparations
are being made for a trial of electric
power ON the Miami canal at Chilli
cothe, o.
The new proposal of Sanford Flen-
ing for a trans-Pacific cable, which he
intends submitting to the Canadian
and Australian governments, contains
four alternating routes, all of which
will have Vancouver as the Canadian
terminus The length of the shortest
route, including branches. would be-
6-224 and the longest 1924 nautical
miles The cost of the former is esti-
mated at 81, $50, 900; of the latter, e1,-
$4,000.
Prof Fritch. lecturing in the mu-
scum of Ethnolygy at Berlin to two
hundred military officers. said that
with the aid of electricity he had been
able to photograph projectiles in tram
sit He exhibited photographs show
ing the air waves caused by the mis-
siles, which form legible record of the
velocity with which they have travel
ed The apparatus used by the profess
sor is said to be the invention of a
young man named Vernon, of Edin-
burgh, Scotland
struction in the office of the manager
of the Hudson River Telephone Co., at
Albany, a novel map on which will be
recorded the position of the house Of
each subscriber. of whom there are up
ward of 1000. The map has been traced
on scale of 400 feet to the inch, and
is about 415x52i feet in dimensions
The situation of each subscriber is in
dicated by pin, and the metallic cir
cults for long distance instruments by
q red silk thread.
1t may be of interest to those who
live in districts remote from electric
light and power plants to know that
the windmill is coming into fashion for
the generation of electricity. 1t was
first used for this purpose by WELL
known American pioneer in the cleo
trio lighting field, but it is now being
adopted in Europe for the lighting Of
country houses As an installation Of
this nature at the residence of gentle
man at St LUNAR, France, the wind
mill is placed on a masonry tower at a
heighth of thirty-three feet from the
ground and the power is transmitted
by gearing and belt to a dynamo,
which charges a number of battery
cells In this way current is provided
for the lighting of the whole house,
and for other domestic purposes