The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-09-28
IN THE ELECTRICAL WORLD.

The number of telephone stations;
In Germany, which was 1904 in 1891,
had increased at the beginning of the
present year to 63,55s
An English carriage building firm
has built number of vehicles illumi-
mated inside and out by electricity.
Storage or primary batteries are placed
under the seats, and the lamp is fitted
to the end of the wire connecting with
the batteries.
"A system of burglar alarms has
been invented in Germany, in which
threads stretched across windows,
doors or passages, on being touched,
removed small insulating wedge from
between two metallic springs, which on
making contact with each other ring
the alarm.
I'm Germany recently one man was
killed and another injured by an cleo
trio current. the one who was injured
being awarded damages, while the one
who was killed was not. This would
appear to be an argument, at least in
Germany, for the use of high tension
circuits, as it appears to be cheaper to
kill outright than to injure persons
Our railway companies, in the United
States, find it much cheaper to kill
than to injure.
Tesla, the electrician, suggests
that since images are recognized in the
brain through the medium of the re-
tina and the optic nerve. it may be pos
sible for the brain to evolve an image
upon the retina by sort of reflex ac-
ton when the mental picture is formed
in the mind, and that possibly means
may at some time be obtained by which
this image upon the retina may be rec
ognized so that the true mind reading
may be effected.
Referring to the common state.
ment that electricity is still in
its infancy, Prof. Dolbear recent
" said: Electricity is not in it's
infancy. Despite what has been done
there is nothing in the present use of
electricity that has not been known
for many years. Arc lights were
known eighty years ago; the telegraph
is sixty years old, the telephone thirty,
and the incandescent lamp ditto. We
are not at work with new things or on
new principles. If you are running a
motor with electricity, it is not new
discovery in electricity to apply the
same power to the operation of lathe
or a street car.
I'm estimating the possibilities OF
the future development of the many
electrical appliances already in use,
there is no more interesting factor
than the storage battery. The idea of
using stored electricity has always
had a fascination for the public, who
have been for many years waiting pa
tiently and hopefully for the day
when the commercial efficiency of the
storage battery would be established
beyond question. That day may be-
said To- have arrived, for, while much
remains to be done in raising the
standard of efficiency, stability and
other essential points of the accumu-
lator, it is now largely and protitably
employed for various purposes, more
particularly lighting and traction.
"A German paper gives some inter-
esting particulars respecting a new
protector system, which it is intended
to experiment with in connection with
the next German military and naval
maneuvres- For field purposes the in
stallation comprises an 1S-horse power
portable engine, to which are attached
a dynamo and an electric protector.
The special point is that the light is
not thrown direct upon the enemy, but
on to a mirror situated about 200
meters away from the plant, the object
being to deceive the enemy as to the
position of the plant, and thereby
cause them to direct their fire to a
wrong situation. To the mirror is at
tached an electric motor connected by
cable with the dynamo, so that those
running the installation can shift the
angle of the mirror as required. This
plant will be used in the beleaguring
of Thorn, town in West Prussia, in
the German army maneuvres. 1t is also
to be used in harbor defense against
marine attack.