The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1896-12-05

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TO ABOLISH DISTANCE,
'8ss Russian Transatlantic Tele.
phone Scheme.

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.lAhe 8ss Russian Transatlantic Tele. |
Ss3l phone Scheme.
fhe alleged Russian discovery Of a
telephone system ..by the aid Of which
distance is practically abolished, and
Z a1l AZ! ordinary telegraph wire sufices to
send music nearly 1000 miles with lit
rle as loss of tone or volume" has been
criticised freely by electricians on both
SIDES Of the Atlantic Some Of the
acomments a are amusing, while others
5snoAV@t1at % M KildischeWsky, the inventor
eI the so-called new scheme, has so far
I aaxchleyed ax only about half as much as
has already been done in this country.
/ ! "A Cable Expert fears that the Rus
sian scientist, who is said to be about
to travel to London to experiment with
his Improvement on the Atlantic cables
between London and New York, has
not fully realized the practical difficult
ties that beset this scientific problem.
Indeed, the assumption seems warrant-
ed that he has never seen a cable
worked, for he talks Of speaking from
london city to New: York; This would
seem to prove his ignorance of the ele-
mentary fact that a London-New York
line is composed of three distinct sec
lions worked by three separate sets Of
Instruments. "A Gable Expert" places
Kildischewsky in a group of cable in
Eentors whose hopes have not been
EsROlloWed by fruition. OF one of these
6 Ae writes: My third inventor I met at
$5an Atlantic cable station in Nova, Sco-
tla.F He was a smart man, with a big
Scheme to supersede the miserable sys-
tenn of cable signaling invented by Sir
|. William Thompson A pretty big con-
tract. He had so. pestered' the presi-
dent Of the company that the latter ul-
timately consented to lend him one Of
bis cables for his experiments. The
letter written by the president to his
station manager was laconic: Dear
Nil send you crank Fix him as
you think best''' tits needless to say
that the marvellous mirror and syphon
recorder invented by Lord Kelvin vas
not superseded, on that occasion. An
I American expert mentions the fact that
IN this country a telephone circuit !, 400
miles long is. in commercial use every
day, and that he has talked over 1900
miles, which is equal to nearly three
times the distance 800 miles mention
ed in the Russian dispatch. He sees no
Rehson to believe that the Moscow per-
nance is of any importance; possi-.
bly, a. new transmitter has been used.
He places the Americans far ahead Of
Europe in long-distance work; the line
from Boston to st. Louis-1, 400 miles
long-is more than twice as long as any
European telephone circuit; the line to
Memphis is 1858 miles. J. J. Cavity,
another well known telephone authori-
ty, sees nothing remarkable in the tele-
phoning OYER telegraph wires on the
500 miles circuit between Moscow and
Rostoff. This has been done several
times already. AS to submarine tele-
| phony, we shall, he believes, have it
across the Atlantic some day. The
opinion on this subject apparently best
worthy Of respect, is that the desired
result will be accomplished, not by i'm
| provements in the transmitter and re-
ceiver, but by improvements in the ca
BILE. An opinion Of not a little signifi-
canoe, brought out by the discussion of
this subject, is. that of Lieut.. Patten,
who states his conviction that telephon-
ic repetition from one line to another
is destined to be one Of the next steps
in electrical advance. A few months
ago he distinctly heard speech in a sec
ond line that was automatically trans
mitted from the first by a repeating
telephone relay the speech being de-
livered in the second line with all the
distinctness and certainty of ordinary
+ telephone transmission. If a message
can be thus repeated once, it can be
done again and again, and herein may
possibly be found the entrance to
new era of telephone progress.
Sv,
States. -
The history Of the bicycle industry in
the states is in many respects the most
remarkable industrial record Of the
country. Prior to 1885 the number of
domestic manufacturers Of wheels was
only six land in that year IL 1000 ma
| chimes were turned out. In 1880 there
were seventeen factories, with: an out
put of 10000 cycles. In 1894 the num-
ber of factories increased at O rapid
| rate, and 125,000 machines were made.
In 1895 the production bounded up to
| 100000, and the number of manufac-
tories was more than 500, counting
none which turned out less than 1000
machines year. The capital invested
in these larger factories is placed at
$9O,O00,OOO, and the lowest estimate Of
the output Of the present year. is j, 900, :.
600 completed bicycles, worth $6OO00,-.
600. The capital invested in the manu-
facture Of bicycles is about $125 100000
and 100000 people are employed in de-
signing, making and selling the various
products appertaining to them. No
complete cycles are now imported into
the United States, and the American
manufacturers, in the half-year ending
IJune 80, 1896, exported cycles and parts
worth $1,654, ,291, or nearly seven times
1.-THE amount sent abroad in the previous
Ithaf-year Nearly half Of this export
lEhas gone to England, and it is now
Esaid that American makers actually
stand a chance Of pturing the English
market. If the American manufac tur-
Eers will build a somewhat stronger ma
chine, fitted with gear cases and mud
guards, it is looked upon as more than
Eprob obable that from 40, 900 to SO 600
American cycles will be sold in Eng
Hand in the year / 1S97. In 1895 the best
bicycles were selling at 81 14O;; now the
same quality Of mac chine perhaps much
\ Sbette sells at $$lOO More than 8, ,OoO.-