The Van Buren press., 1895-10-05
IN THE ELECTRICAL WORLD


electrical fan that is used for cooling
the atmosphere in simmer will also in.
crease the warmth of room in winter.
The use of the inverted are lampis
said to be steadily growing, especially
for factory work In this form of Il.
Elimination, the light is thrown up
ward by airefiector to d White ceiling,
from whence it is diffused throughout
the building in a soft, mellow tone.
{. Electric cars have been prohibited
on the road from Berlin to Charlotten-
burg. They would have passed by the
Imperial Technical institute, and ex.
periments showed that the current for
the railroad strongly affected all the
apparatus in the building, SO as to
make delicate scientific observations
and experiments impossible.
In storm that ragged at Klausthal
In the Harz mountains bolt, entering
. house, struck wooden post on
whose top two metallic nails one-sixth
of an inch in diameter were melted.
No forge could have effected this; to
bring it about, an electric current of
two hundred amperes intensity and
twenty thousand volts tension must
have passed through the nails. Sup
posing that the action of the lightning
lasted second, the dynamic power
thus developed was equal to five thou
sand horse power, but If, as is much
more probable, the discharge lasted
only tenth of a second, we get rate
of work that does not fall short OF
fifty thousand-horse power.
About two weeks ago the New
York World gave description of
new storage battery, the invention OF
two Brooklyn On. W electricians,
which appears to combine very decided
improvements in capacity of storage Of
electric energy. The great porosity OF
the plates of this new accumulation is
said to be such that plate Tx9 inches,
and one.half inch thick, will absorb
AZ ounces of water. To do this it
must naturally be very spongy in its
formation. The formation of these
plates is a very simple process, made
at cost very much below anything
produced before. In cases where
lightness is an object, such as when
used for the propulsion of vehicles,
these cells can be made to weigh one
half as much and give the same eff
cheney as those used for stationary
purposes, and it is said their lasting
qualities are equal to any now known.
THE New York law in regard to
the maintenance of secrecy by tele-
phone employees rs to messages passing
over the wires will go into effect on
September l. It requires the staff OF
telephone companies to be as secretive
regarding the nature of their business
as are the men and women who handle
the telegraphic messages. A person
who either wrongfully obtains or at
tempts to obtain any knowledge of a
telegraphic or telephone message by
connivance with clerk, operator,
messenger, or other employe Of tele-
graph or telephone company, or, being
such operator or other employe, will
fully divulges to any one but the per-
son for whom it was intended the con-
tents or the nature of telegraphic or
telephonic message intrusted to him
for transmission or delivery, or Of
which contents he may in any way
have become possessed, is punisha BILE
by fine of 81 900 or six months inn
prisonment, or both. The same pen.
atty attaches to neglect or refusal to
transmit or deliver messages, except
when they are intended for illegal
purpoSes att IA a.s