Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-04-12
IN THE ELECTRICAL WORLD.

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Rev. j. T. Cowan, Pittsburgh, Pa,
has just received record made on the
Edison Photograph at Yokohama, Ja-
pan, by Rev. A R Morgan. a mission
airy to whom a photograph was recent
" sent as an aid in his work The
message on wax was mailed in a tin
box, and on its safe arrival in Pitts
burgh the voice of Mr.. Morgan rang
out distinctly and naturally, though he
was 5000 miles away. Other records
will be sent. including native songs
The annual report of the Edison
Electric Illuminating Co, of Boston,
shows: Earnings, 1898. $5e4, OBS, in
crease over the previous year, 500. 762;
expenses. sSS1,774, increase, s44. 100.
There was an increase in the number
of lamps of IS, 455 incandescent and I64
arc; in motors, an increase of $50 horse
power. Since the last annual meeting
the company has authorized an increase
of its capital stock to the limit allowed
by the special act of the legislature,
viz, 50, OO0, OO0 This stock has all been
subscribed for. The dividend of the
company for the past year owas * per
cent
"A new electrically-p-opeIled car
rage is being introduced by NJ. Paul
The carriage will carry six persons.
The electric energy is supplied by a
battery of ifty-four Dujardin accumu-
lators The motor is of the Rochinews-
XII type. with an output of 1000 watts.
1t is fixed in the center of the vehicle,
and transmits its power by chain gear
ing to the driving-wheel According
to the inventor, the total weight of
the carriage and equipment is about
L Is tons One charge of the accumu-
lators is sufficient for journey OF for
ty-fOur miles at speed of ten miles an
hour.
Previous to laying the new cable
from thirty-eighth street, New York,
to Hunters Point, L l., the Metropoli-
tan Telephone and Telegraph Co, for
three days. had men at work dragging
the river. at this point for old cables
They found three that had been broken
several years ago, and pulled them up
Two had been severed by ships an
chors, and the anchors were still cling
ing to them Beside the danger from
anchors, submarine cables suffer from
friction with rocks on the river bot
tom The swift current of the East
river causes submarine cable to chafe
good deal on the rocks, and so ca
DlC IuSTC O0 We'll pro
tected-
The electric heaters on the Cincin-
natl street cars are said to have proved
quite success The total cost of oper-
ating the heaters is in the neighbor-
hood of two cents an hour. The cost
of coal stove would amount, in coal
alone, to five cents an hour, excluding
the cost of a man to keep the fires in
good order. The electric stoves on the
cars, without doubt. says the Cincin-
natl Times-Star, reduces the cost of
heating, and, as the current is taken
out of the power-house of the company,
the plan is a good one The average
life of street car stove is but three
years They have to be removed at
the end a the cold season and placed
! in position again in the winter The
| electric heaters are SO small and COM
pact that they are barely noticeable,
| and will last for five or six years if
properly handled.
One of the most interesting appli-
cations of the storage battery, says the
Electrical Engineer, is that which has
been recently successfully tested, and
| is now in actual operation, on the SEQ
| foot span of the Omaha Bridge & Term
| iual Co.'S drawbridge between East
| Omaha and Cynncn Bluffs The draw
| weighs between 5, 900, 900 and 4, 900, OOO
| pounds, and is swung in about four
minutes by two Waddell-Entz motors
of forty horse power each, taking cur
| rent from Ss4 cells of copper steel
alkaline storage battery, arranged up
| on eight tracks, each two in series,
| giving four distinct units The motors.
batteries, switchboard and gearing are
all contained in a tower at the middle
of the span. forty feet above the road
bed The cells are charged from the
trolley wire of the East Omaha Street
Railway Go. The whole battery may
be charged in series, or it may be di'
vided into two parts and each charged
separately, and the machinery may be
worked from one-half the betting indie
pendently of the other half. if desira
BILE. The motors are geared to the
main shaft that turns the bridge, and
also to another shaft that operates the
locking mechanism, both through the
| rTaadiur7 Of clutches