The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-26
Copyrighted. 1896.

BESIDES scores of others. drawn from the
ranks of those who have contributed most
f-sely 10 modern electrical science. are
an working earnestly and tremendously
,ogether to make the coming show of
electrical appliances, to be held in New
York next month, the most eXtraordi-
nary scientific exhibition on record Sue
csss will undoubtedly crown their ef-
forts and the fact that this will largely
ba due to the circumstance that there are
now more wonderful things to show than
over before should not detract one whit
from the praise to be awarded for the
tboroughness Of plan and detail and the
keen appreciation Of the effective that
have been evinced in every step taken
since the enterprise was first seriously con-
sdered.
In the matter of expense the coming
show will greatly exceed all its prede-
cassors. 1t will cost $4,000 to lnstah
the various machines and apparatus
ovb,bited and the total value of the ex-
hibits will not be far from half mill
ion-rather over than under The total
cost of the show, then, will be nearly
500 o00 including the rent of the build
ing. ,,, ,- &c
..rr,,a national Electrical Exposition" 1t
I'll begin on May 4 and close on May 81:
II will be held under the auspices OF, anu
in connection with the nineteeIth, GoitE ven
lion of the National Electric LlghI AsSoI
io4ion in the New York INDUSTRIAL
buNding which covers the ehure Dloeh
at Lexington avenue ana rory ~ Par rll
Reniamin and Edward Lind Morse make
m the Historical and Loan ENhlblt COM
mttee in eharge For ntar Sny Nave Mee been
constantly busy perfecting ana eAecutlhS
tbeir ulans. Hardly day mas pdsseus
since the first, witno o lF fe,+1,Ie 10 the
original programme, which mas now pc
come so elaborate that is would De quite
innossible within the limits or news
paper article, to do more than Outline It's
feature that will appeal with irresis-
tibIa force to those who love the maiNSlS
of modern scientific achievement VIII De
the working model of the great eieclIlc
power plant at Niagara; a m 51.1s,IIo.
hover house, containing little dyhamos,
built to the exact scale Of the monster
originals, will be shown in secuon-tnaI
is, will be cut in half, so that the specta d
tors may see an exact reproaucuo3n %
the contrivances wherew1th the hlshty
waterfall has been harneSsed 10 tne WoIh
Of man. Sections of these great Mhe tIa
waste water is conveyed to the river pc
low the falls, will also be shown ana the
whole will be operation an t n19er D,iT1
ing an hour or two each evening the
wheels and dynamos will be reVoiVed by
means of power transmitted oirecuy Ai0iiA
Niagara itself. =,
Still further-and this will perhaps be
considered the most WONDERFUL Ieatute
Of the entire xpoSition-arrdngeme
viii he made for the telephonic transmits
sion of the actual roar made Dy tne
constant falling of thousands on to nisr,o OI
water at Niagara, so that the soleiiln
booming of the distant cataract can De
clearly heard by those In attendance.
Tbink of it; Natures most Impressive
Yoice@a voice that has not been hushed
since rivers began to run-is TO be car
ried over hundreds of miles OF copper
wire across plains and mountains ana
valleys under and over running streams
and through tunnels, to the very heart OF
the new worlds greatest city, there 70
rise above and dominate the murmur ana
chatter of the noisy, sightseeing multi
tude! .
big transmitter will be placed at the bot
tom of the big Niagara wheel PIT, ana TINS
will be directly connected with long
distance telephone in the Industrlal puI lii
fed by the megaphone as 10 give II a
volume closely approaching that Whlch IS
This will be a continuous feature, as
the telephone current will pass over
regular long distance wire; but the cur
sources during the most OF each twenty
four hours. When the Niagara current
is turned on direct, however. it Will be
of sufficient volume to do great deal
more than operate the model. The surplus
will be employed in variety of ways.
On one or more evenings il will be used
to illuminate the Bartholdi statute OF
Liberty in New York harbor At other
times the Western Union building, and
ed up. Again, the current will be ultil-
lied in lighting harbor buoys, in signal
ling from Fire Island to Barnegat light,
in lighting the exposition hall itself, ana
in working the government code of sig
nails from a mammoth balloon that will
float above the exposition building.
This balloon, by the way, will be the
most spectacular feature of the whole
show, especially at night, since it will
then be brilliantly Illuminated and will
bear flaming legend in letters large
enough to be read at a great distance,
describing the exposition going on be-
low.
Perhaps this is as good place as any
to make it clear to the reader what his
transmission of Nicaraga's electrical cur
sent each evening over one of the COM
mercial mains of the Western Union
company President Eckert having offer
ed the facilities of the vastest telegraph
system in existence for that purpose. 1t
will be the longest power transmission in
The world, the wire being 462 miles in
from Neckar to Frankfort-on-the-Ma
lis only 10 miles.
ment of electric power transmission will
remember that for years many electrical
experts persisted in the declaration that
II would require more copper than could
be afforded by the worlds. entire visible
supply to make cable big enough to
send power from Niagara to New York,
and that when Tesla, few years ago,
announced his ability to perform this sup
posedly impossible thing, these same
experts laughed him to scorn. But there
is now no doubt that the transmission can
and will be accomplished, since already,
in a number of experiments, it has been
found practicable TO send a great volume
of current from the falls to the Hudsons
mouth over a single commercial main,
Tesla's two phase system" so-called, be-
ing the method employed. 1t should be
said however, that at this writing no one
can determine how many horse power
will be transmitted, since the experiment
has not yet been tried under anything like
as favorable conditions as will exist dur
ing the exhibition.
But perhaps the most interesting uses
to which the Niagara current will be put
have not yet been mentioned. Arrange
ments have been made to turn 1t into enc
Of the Atlantic cables and then to utilize
the energy of the big water fall TO fash
message under the sea from the American
republic to the mother country. President
Cleveland may then send greetings by ca
BILE 10 her majesty, Queen Victoria, and
inasmuch as Niagara's waters are Internal
81 H. Al.