The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-05-10
IN THE ELECTRICAL WORLD.


AT present the city of Washington
and the congested streets of New York
and Chicago are practically the only
places in the country where the over
head trolley wire is excluded.
The great Edison incandescent
lamp works are no longer turning out
lamps with bamboo filaments. Bam-
boo has given way to paper as the ba-
sis of the delicate black tilament that
glows golden when the current passes
through it.
Some of the proprietors of large
western farms and ranches, are making
their wire fences do duty as telephone
lines, in many instances with satisfac-
tory results. Gate and road crossings
are overcome by elevating wire con.
nections to the required height.
An electric restaurant is to be one
of the features in the great exposition
to be held next year in Amsterdam.
Visitors will be served automatically
with complete dinner, and all they
will have to do will be to press an cleo
trio button, eat the food, and pay the
bill.-Hardware
On the st. Dennis canal, France,
some trials of towing by electricity on
the Bovet system have been made with
a barge, fitted at one end with an cleo
trio motor, communicating it's rotary
motion by gear, to the towing wheel,
which give magnetic adhesion to the
towing rope. The current was taken
bx- a tro11a1- from off on ox-arbaad 1.-Two
on the bank, a portion serving for
magnetizing the clutch and towing
chain. A distance of about 394 yards
is said to have been accomplished in
eight minutes, corresponding with a
speed of II miles per hour, which is
about double that obtained by ordina-
ry towage. As to whether, on the
whole, the system was regarded as a
success is not stated.
Electricity is evidently to be the
hope and dependence of the coming
housekeeper. Even the present one
may look for a speedy amelioratiOn of
many domestic discomforts. Some
sanguine electricians promise in five
years small passenger elevators for
private houses that will run by but
ton, and in the kitchen domain the
magic electrical spark is to be a verita-
BILE fairy godmother. One service
which it is already performing in a
California restaurant is that of elimi-
mating the pervasive odor of cooking
food. The proprietor introduced an
electric exhaust fan, with the happiest
results. The fan, which is operated
by small motor, draws up the heated
air and smells of the kitchen, and
drives them up a shaft, whence they
escape into the outer air.
1t seems that Mr.. Thomas A. Edi-
son has put in bid to the receiver of
the North American Phonograph Co.
for his phonograph, on which he prom
ises such improvements and novelties
as will astonish the world He says
that when he obtains control of the
machine he is going in for household,
instead of nickel-in-the-slot machines,
and in short time expects to produce
an entire opera or a complete novel on
acylinder The change will cost a good
deal, but he thinks it will pay him. He
also says the combination of the Kineto-
scope and phonograph can be made,
and he is going to reproduce the mo-
tions and words of life-size speaking
figure, he having already got the speak
ing and moving figure up to half life
size. He will manufacture the perfect
ed phonograph individually.