Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-02-23
ELECTRICITY In 1900.
PRINTING, LIGiIrING. fiEArING, CocKrN,
AND OTHER New DEVICES


machin., called the ''iissick Electric
Page Printer will be put in opera
ton this wee i'll various Wall street
Offices which, it is CLAIMED, will soon
he Indispensable to all newspapers or
''Ler institutions or persons desi,-
ing quick transit Of news. 1t is IL
modification of tie old tape printing
ticker which the general public has
so long seen in use III hotels, banks
and brokers' Offices to record stock
transactions and such other news n,
is generally bulletin, d in that way.
The ''pnge pIintci uses pretty much
the same little wheel to do the print
ing. In place of the tape of narrow
Puper IL continuous roll little wider
than TIVE coIunnS Of The Sun Is auto
motically led i'll front Of this wheel
and prints i'll broad line o! clear
type whatever the matter is that is 10
be published. This roll of nows can
be two inches, two feet or two yards
long, or amy other length desl cd
An expert Photographer is not needed
to send out the messages. which are
printed simultaneously on nil the in
struments on the circuit. There is n
keyboard like that of Il typewriter on
which the sender spells out his mes
sage. The instrument can therefore
be brie lly described us an electric
typewriter with an automatic print
Ing attachment. A speed of forty
words IL minute can be had and he
circuit can be worked with ono WIRE.
The practical value of the machine is
TO be tried by one of the big dulles,
which will put two or three of them
Mt different stations i'll the city and
have It's reporters send their items
TO the publication Office in this man
her. The projectors of the machine
are very snnguine of its success 1t
Is certainly II long advance over the
old fashioned ticker, and much SIN
pier and reader than Prof. Gray's
electric writing machine recently de.
scribcd in the sun.
The editors of iour of the lending
authorities, i'll response to an iuvitn
tion to give their ideas on the proba
.ble development OF electricity aud its
application, promise some wonderful
'chnnges before the dawn of the next
century. The editor of the Elect.i
cal World says: ave can expect no
great improvements III dynahlos and
motors, as they now return in clec
triclty MS high rs 81 per cent of the
energy supplied to them. The are
lamp Is practically perfect electrically.
and while notable improvements may
be made i'll the present form of the
1ncandescent lamp, nothing startling
can be expected. Electric railway
traction will undoubtedly supcrsede
all ether methods for urban use. and.
by the extension of networks i'm The
country, promises to largely revoln
tlonize rural life; its application. how
ever, to trunk lines seems improba
bile. The electrical transmission of
power will receive enormous eyten
slons and probably entirely take The
place OF steam power within a radius
OF several hundred miles of water
powers and in the vicinity of coal
helds, whence the energy of coal will
be distributed by means OF the rloc.
trio current instead of the coal itself
being transported. The electric light
Will probably entirely supersede all
other kinds Of illumination in cities.
towns and thickly settled rural dis
trlcts, and electric motors will gradu.
ally enter into all operations reqnir.
ing power and more and more mar
row the field of the steam engine, if,
with the gas ensii rs an ally. il
does not drive it out entirely. Tele
phonlng across the Atlantic is prob
ability and seeing by electricity n
possibility"
The editor of the Electrical Re
view also believes in the sure advent
OF tho transatlantic telephone, the
further development of the transmits
sion OF electric power. and especially
an elaboration of the domestic use of
electricity. On this last point he
says: Electric heating is now an in,
portant element in the rapidly ex.
tending railway business, replacing.
the disagreeable and dangerous car
stove, and is advancing into the do
main OF the coal furnace and GAS
range, bringing cleanliness, convent
ence and economy with it. When
FULLY perfected aud understood. the
electric heater will be one of the
greatest boons that The electrical en-.
queer has given US. Every house
vile will rise up and call him bless
ed, and every husband will bless him
and not rise up! He can lie abed and
increase or originate heat in room
and kitchen by simply turning q
switch or pressing button. Even
this effort may be dispensed witt
and clocxwork attachment pres.
the botton automatically"
me editor of the Electrical Ag,
comedies with this prophetic view O
tn the household run By electricity
This is his view Of what we will bay,
by the year 1900: uf avnact :, 60,