New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-04-22
APPLICATIONS OF ELECTRICITY.

4 LonGon restaurant uses an electrically neateo
plate to keep ones food warm. 50 long "a the cur
rent is turned can dine in as ei.grfy %oy
ha likes There is no danger OF receiving s'oS"
from touching the plate.
The frs, OF the 500 horsepower generators OF the
Niagara FlIs Power Company. having been set W
AMI connected 20 its turbine shaft. was made &c
rotate few days ago for test pnTpOsaS E eve. y
Tune On the American side with a capacity OF
over 100" horsepo"er ne comPanV 5 Ise w Hen
deyeop.d vii yield twice as mGe' ba more es fea!
yJ o %" the orx s re And II
Is announced that Leonard Henke, Of Rochester.
yes, ihls use OF the Falls. is trying 70 get up
third organiza ion OF capitalists t9r similar pur.
pose gigantic sch M. utterly eclpsing the 9tners
in proportiors Is projected, and elaborate details
are SUPPLIED or pNRaar GonsumpSn pI5 1he al
An Englishman has a special wire connected with
his house-lightng circuit. by OF which he can
lead heating current his frozen water-pipes and
,haw them out; They never have sgch freeze over
IN the right little tight little Isle We 30 here.
bu; the plan might be made 70 work IN America
The French physician D'Arsonval. who has ex'
pernontei extensively with electricity for curative
purposes hnis alternating currents OF high frequency
the most seyiceabe. lie claims that they stimulate
the ACTIVITY Of proop.asm promote the em'naclon non
Of urea AMI clrboEic acid gas increase me con,
sumption OF oxygen. ana thus squcnen eHtig snen
caiiy good for rheumatism ana nervous disorderS'
In foundries it is customary to mmerse castings
in bath OF dilute sulphuric nitric acid in order
20 remove burnt and ard scale. This process IS
known as picking" The fumes from the acid
render this method Of cleaning the metal very Of
sttute have been made. but without success untl
recently. \ plan invented by Or. A H. Ramage'
OF Edinburgh ia now In Ise in a wire mill near Chi
c1go ana proves great success. The objects 70
b. picked attached - the on9de. or POSITIVE
in a solution % some salt Of iron not named Flee,
trOlyss results and the iron taken OF the picked
rods is deposited on the cathode
The proposed dam across the Nile at the cataracts
for purposes OF irrigation. has already been men
toned in Thu Tribune 1t Is now suggested that
also be obtained there End by transmitting the lai-
ter electrically 70 more ihan hundred cotton m.Iis
immens- industry could be built up
In some new shops just erected by the Westng-
house people at Brinton. Penn, all the machinery
is 10 be driven by electricity. Tesa's two7phass
system is 20 be used there. At present thisiy-
seven motors ranging from ten 20 sevenlygnve
horsepower in capacity. and having an aggresatee
sixteen more. with capacity OF 1890 horse power
vii! soon be added. Besides all these Tesla a.ier-
majors will he substituted for some old direct cur
machines temporarily retained.
on a large estate in Moravia (Austria) last sum
mer a panins MI. girls, MT, three farms ana
dairy were supplied with electricity from one sta
ton. The paner driven by this power alone.
Grinding was done by water-power most OF the
time ard the eiectric motor came into use only in
emergencies. In the dairy ten horsepower motor
operated several pumps ami some small apparatus.
Each OF the farms had A twelve horsepower motor.
mounted on a truck and housed. ard moved about
chimes and other things The power circuits were
carried through the feds poe lines In the con-
nected up az any point where their service was re-
Guired The plant set up by a big nrm IN
some Of the countless uses 20 which electricity can
be devoted in rural regions