St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1895-12-07
I'M THE HEELEcTRicAL WORLD.

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LII is claimed that electric lamps |
run by storage batteries last twice as
long as lamps operated directly from
dynamos.
An electric time cheek receiver,
which embodies an automatic device
for receiving the checks of tickets OF
employees in manufacturing establish
ments, offices, etc, is; among the late
electrical patents granted
The question of municipal control
of electric lighting plants, says Elec-
trieity, viii, no doubt receive consid-
cradle attention at the next meeting Ct
the American Society Of Municipal
improvements, to be held in Chicago
next year.
There are now $50 electric rail-
ways in the United States, with more
than nine thousand miles of track,
2, 900 cars. and capital of sSs4oo, 600, 900.
In 1887 the electric roads IN the United
States mum bered only. thirteen, with
about one hundred cars
It has recently been pointed out,
says the Philadelphia Inquirer, that
already the telephone is used, by actual
count, ten times as much as the tele-
graph, the annual figures being put
now at about Is, 0oo, 900 kilograms and
$50, 900, 600 telephone talks. s.
For finishing certain kinds of fab
RIGS and also for obtaining effects OF
watering. drapering, etc, there is used
a hydraulic press and heated plates,
between which the fabric or paper is
| placed. The heating of the plates is
effected in furnace. The ineonven-
ience of this system is that during the
work the plates become cool, and the
action obtained is not regular. The
idea has occurred to FIR. Emile Gla-
viez, of Chemnitz, to heat the plates
by electricity, and to thus establish
an electric press. 1t is said to be q
success. 81.
The steady progress of the gas en-
CINE IN public favor offers good in
stance Of the danger of setting up in
the engineering prophesying business.
When it was learned that the electric
motor was a mechanical success there
were number of enthusiastic en-.
gineers who were very sure that the
gas engine would soon lapse into the
state of dusty curiosity. But i
seems to be far otherwise. The Elec'
1 tricaI Review OF October 9 says, in It'll
editorial columns: s'The new gas en-
gine developed by Mr.. Geo. Westing
/ house, jr., promises to work revolu
1 tion in the economical generation o.
the electric current. The crude re
lsuIts thus far obtained indicate that
saving of fifty per cent. over steam
power will be attained"
Louis Fl, Spellier has devised SOM
very ingenious movements for clocks
which every few moments wind up tn
mainspring which has been spent il
EpropeIling the works. The main feat
lure about this spring is that even TO
large clocks it is very short, and tn
!, spring being bound up SO often no
only takes little power, but remain
almost at an even tension, thus afford
!, ling far better regulation and less Wea
and tear on the clock gears. To shol
the simplicity of the device for vino
! ling this spring, it is but necessary
follow it one cycle Say, for instance
| the clock is running and the power c
! Ispring is bartly spent. A point on th
drum which carries the spring make
{ slectrie contact which energies thre
magnets .successively, winding th
: spring and carrying a weight past il
! highest point, which in dropping put
!. full tension on the spring, and th
, clock is again ready for another fe'
: minutes run. etc. Another great al
! vantage of this self winding clock is i
4 compactness. It occupies very lit
: Emore space than an ordinary eight-da
clock of any pattern or make, doin
: Iaway with lot of complicated gea
! ing, found in other forms of self-win,
> ing clocks.