The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-06-22
IN The ELECTRICAL MoRLp.

The Electrical Review states that
there are rumors afloat that the Man.
haitian Elevated Railroad Co. has begun
seriously to consider the advisability II
electrically equipping it's system
I'm Russia lady was saved from
premature burial by means of micro
phone placed over the heart. which en-
abled medical man to detect faint
beat, which had escaped the ordinary
tests.
1t is stated that one of the pro-
posed new elevated railroads of Chi
cago is to cut right through the blocks
of buildings, forming an arcade with
abutting stores and shops. thus avoid
ing the destruction of the buildings en-
tirely. 1t is supposed that electricity
will be the motive power of the new
system
One of the features of interest in
the Antwerp exhibition will be num-
Der of exhibits illustrating the history
artificial illumination. All kinds OK
lights. from the early Pompeiian and
Roman lamps down to the most mod
ern forms of electric lamps, will be rep
resented.
"A French physician has devised a
vibrating helmet for the cure of nerv-
Gus headache. Ii is constructed OF
strips of steel, put I'm vibration by
small electro-motor. which makes six
hundred turns minute. The sensa-
ton, which is not unpleasant. produces
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under its influence, and awakes free
from pain.
The Gilliland Telephone Co. has
been organized under the laws of Illi-
nois. with a capital stock of $1,000 O0-
The general offices of the new company
and its factory are in Chicago. The
telephone of this company is said to be
adapted to exchange work as well as
private lines. and is magnetic system
requiring no battery. The transmitter
is adjustable and can be adapted to tho
height of the user. The chief business
of the company will be manufacturing
Mountaineering apparatus for telephone
work generally.
Up in the great timber regions Of
the northwest the telling of trees by
means of electricity has come into use
to some extent. The method has been
found to be not only saving of time
and labor, but also decidedly conven-
lent. 1t is done by means of a plati-
mum wire stretched between the poles
of the circuit. which. when the current
is on. becomes incandescent, and this
use of an incandescent wire has been
found to be much easier and far more
expeditions than that of a saw. Not
only is the work reduced. but there is
another advantage. inasmuch as there
is no sawdust. and the fact of the sur
face of the severed trunk being slig 1T
" charred materially tends to preserve
it. 1t is estimated that in the matter
of time consumed. the comparison Is
as about one to eight in favor of the
wire.
The Metropolitan Traction Co., Of
New York. has withdrawn its offer Of
$4,000 for a new conduit system, after
putting hundreds of inventors to great
expense in preparing to compete for
the prize. 1t is officially stated. how
ever, that two of the large electrical
companies, one of which is the Sie-
mens-Holske Co., have made offers to-
put down an experimental road. The
details of the latter system, it is re-
ported, have been examined by the en-
gineers of the Traction Co.. and. on the
strength of their favorable report. a
trial of it will be made on LenOx av-
enue. where the company has recently
obtained the right to lay tracks, upon
an understanding with property own
ers that an underground conduit sys-
TEN will be used The system proposed
by the Siemens-Holske Co. is the one
that has been in use in Budapesth, Hum
gary, since 1889.