Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1894-01-17
IN THE eLEcTRroNW


strated that the hardest wood may ~ =
readily sawed with platinum.
plated stccl-core wire, made red-hot bv
electricity.
] Eugene Baldwin, an amateur rl~.
srician OF Montreal. has devised wind
wheel which, in connection with -
dynamo and storage batteries. -
nishcs all the lights he needs in
4 house
-Thc arrival at an American eicctri
launch In Venice from the Wosld's fair
is said NJ have caused great enthusf-
assn. Tec mayor MI aldermen OF The
city paradsed the streets or rather ca
nails, in tlss new craft.
An electric freight railroad started
business fsw days ago i'm Knox cum
~, Me. The Roclland, Thomaston and
Camden electric railroad, built Originate
~ for passenger traffic and so operated
for some little time, has added freirht
and express business, an, will run =
way-bill freight over it's road hcrcI
after.
The new submarine torp-ic,uk Nat
built by Richard Radatz, IL is said
had q successful trial ut OshkanDI WA
The boat is forty feet long, 49,, prov
PEELED and lighted by electricity, the
storage battery system being employed.
The boat Mt the trial carried three men
md remained under water nearly nm
hour In perfect control, so it " re-
ported
Some months ago the Rochester
| IN ~ Railway Co. placed electric
heaters. in few of its cars Behipa
tho registers under the seats OF the cars
arc plates of iron which are heated by
alternating currents. The new method
of heating, IL is said, has proved sue-
cessful, and as fast rs the stoves wear
out ON those cars still retaining coal
stoves the electric heaters will be pub
in.
1t in reported that electric. pamnn,
will be tried on tho Chesapeake
canal, and that n company hnS~
ganized in Baltimore, Md, to fuStl
the project This enterprise has grown
out of the success OF the experiments
with the trolley upon the Erie canal.
II Is also reported that preparations
arc being made for trial of electric
power on the Miami canal ut Chilli
Gothic, O.
Tho new proposal of Sanford FlemA
ing for a trans Pacific cable, which he
intends submitting to tho Canadian
and Australian governments. contains
four alternating routes, nll of which
will have Vancouver MS tho Canadian
terminus. The length of the shortest
route, including branches, would be-
0.224 and the longest a264 nautical
miles The cost of the former Ia esti-
mated ut 81, $50, 900; of the latter, 81.
$50, 900.
Prof Fritch. lccturing In the mu-
| al
hundred military officers, said that
with the aid of electricity he had been
able To photograph projectiles I'm tram
sit He exhibited photographs show
ing the air waves caused by IRE mis-
siles, which form a 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 Edine
burgh, Scotland.
There Is said To be in course of con-
struction In the Office of the manager
of the Hudson River Telephone Co., at
Albany, novel map on which will bo
recorded the position of the house of
each subscriber, OF whom there are up-
ward of 1000 The map has been traced
on n scale Of 400 feet To the inch, and
is about 41fx59l feet in Dimensions
The situation of each subscriber
dicated by pin, and the METAL
cults for long distance instrurnq
q red silk thread.
1t may be of interest to tn
live in districts remote froe
light and power plants TO
the windmill Is coming into
the generation OF electricf
first used for this purpose 8 &
known American pioneoruuil = s
trio lighting field, but IL Il n5seEz S.
adopted in Europe for the light ting 81
country houses. As afi installation %
this nature at the residence of gentl.e|
man at St LUNAR, France the W.
mill Is placed on n masonry tower
heighth OF thirty.three feet from JIG
ground, and the power Is transmitted
by gearing and belt 10 dynnm6,
which charges number OF battery
cells. In this way current IL provided
for the lighting OF the whole house,
and for other domestic purposes