The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-05-06
REIGN OF KING S'
Electric Appliances Now ii ~
Nearly -Four Billions Of Is,'|
GREAT PROGRESS IN Iflla|
Estimates Made by an Eyn..
to Development of the oIs.,
Science. "

1t Is n far cry from the 49,.
capital of the Magnetic Teleg,,ss''
in 1916 to the s3,975,ooo. 600 rs,''
scented the cost of the electric,
in actual use in the Uuited ~.
end Of the year 1900.
The Morse telegraph was II,
tempt to use electricity for Il
purposes. The Magnetic Telor.
pany was organized mainly ny,
efforts of f. o. J. Smith. in ,sIs
the beginning Of the present Imm.'
graph and telephone business M
branches of business in which II
is used. The companys csni,a y
100000, of which one.half 49,.
owners of various patents ara =,
which was allotted TO subscrlss
invested the comparatively In,l,'l
sum Of $1,000 in cash. This s,sas
the working capitA of the drst X,
company. That sum today womb u
pay for the furnishings in tba
oInce of any one of the big telsrs3
j
The value of the propertv ~,
used In their business by iolers ~se
panles alone In this country Is si
Dy competent judges at SoM0s,Sa|
which the Western Union comn's'
ings represent some S1l5O0o lsn
railroad mas its own telegram sys,..
cities have fire telegraph lines aas
city Of any consequence has he ~,
partment telegraph system. In w MI
TO this, there are IN all large s,,'aa
tens of electric burglar alarms w
tatic protection" aud district M.
companies with telegraph line, wv
Inc telephone business dates H.
inventions of Bell and GRAY IN ts';s
Bell system today represents an M
capital Of about 500, 100000, and X.
value of telephone lines. public MI
vate, is placed at $500. 00J.0lC IL "a
New York Mail and Express. Thenl
of subscribers to telephone comns.]
said to be at least 100000 Tss
paules are earning about s3lnala]
nually. or . per cent of the estmsIl
ital invested.
The electric lighting plants Of thp n
States are worth about Sf1nG.1
There are some 5000 companies M,
100000 arc lamps and about 3Gy0nM|
can1escent lamps.
Electrical appliances for equipplr,d
railways are of the estimated Mn
81 800. 900, 900. The electric motor /. /
coming more and more into Use All
believed the value of property i
branch of the electrical business IA
ing at the rate of S150.000.000 4
street railroads operated by eetr|
earn about S72,00O,000 annually q 4
per cent on the capital invested
In addition to these leading lines ID
ness, of which electricity Is the n
there are smaller enterprises reprtse|
considerable capital. About sl0DmAA]
Is asserted, is invested In electrified \
ratus used in connection with mlaIli
Niagara Falls the electrical plant
sents an outlay OF $10,000,d00 and H
power plants represent IN inrestuts|
$4,000. 600. Five hundred elecirolj
establishments nave capital of tH1
WD. Then there slc the eleetrinl a
featuring companies and the stosa.i
terry industries, which are valued Il n
UO,OOO. The General Electric and We'd
house companies alone could nat h 4
chased for $50.u0o,00u.
This makes total Of about Ss5J
GEO. or nearly four billions, invested II
use and Manufacture of electFcaI 4
ances. t. {. Martin, an authorit, 81
subject, declares the figures are a ID
correct as can be ascertained IN "A
multiplicity of enterprises. lie esz
,tnat some 100000 people earn thu
business. one hundred Thousand lH1
ployed in telegraphy. 26,000 by t1 \
telephone exchanges, 10000 In ~
lighting plants, 10000 on electrieilf1
railways and 10000 in electrical II
rics Saws Mr.. Martin:
The arts Of electricity have addh
GOO, 600, 600 TO the worlds wealth Es|
United States of America the poga|
Of half of this can be very easily 4
lished. "
Patrick B. Delany says that Nas|
America, and Steinhcil In Bavaria.
almost simultaneously to put ID cpa1
q practical method Of telegraphy
Morse made his first demonstrallc1i II
University of New York over oneHn|
mile of wire. One year later Esss|
We're transmitted over ten miles
Mt the rate of ten words per ninH'
The duplex system, which made cEs
equal to two for purposes o. teesl1
was invented by b. Stearns Of Ais,]
setts in 1858, anu year or tWe
Edison perfected the quadrupei WI
Norvln Green, when president Of zoe v
ern Union, said that Edisons inis1
alone had increased the value Of l1s
1any property more than shM]
The Delany synchronous system WI
vented In 1854. BY 1t six Morse VI
are obtained over a single wire,
beginning with ten words nas3
1888, the art of electrical comnl.gnaeasj
mas progressed until today the ieas']
speed may be obtained:
,Telephone-,60 words per minute
Morse circuit. Il words: dupiA. y
circuit, 30 words: quadruplex MelS
cult. 80 words; multlpleX tsix cifrq.s|
words: Wheatstone automatic, iss "
Wheatstone automatic duplex, ~ n
wireless telegraphy. 10 words. M
The total yearly earnings Of M.y|
and telephone companies eompIusJ
estimated at less than one-naiI ~
sum realized by the United STAG.
office from the sale of stamps VI
class matter. Investigation has eslis,
the fact that the letters mailea1 aleu- Y,
United States annually average apVs.
~ for each lnhabitant Of me WI
postal cards. seven for each inaa.s,
and kilograms, one and one-hall ~
iuhabitant