The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-30

| xork with electric apparatus and has r,acea an order for thirty electric loco- | s.ctives capable of making speed of l savent ty- i've miles per hour with heavy I pn,iroan trains, is one indication that | graat change is about to take place | = tha method of handling traffic on nur bi9 roads. This change will first | ear,a where the volume of business is
 heavy. and where there are many trains every day." l .T see that you have girls here cook l ,rv bv means of lightning. You have a1ectric irons and electric stoves, and | aiI sorts of electrical cooking appli- l ances as well as electrical heaters Are | these things practicair
 T think they are" said the head of l .na alectricaI department of the Worlds s | Fa,r aElectric heating Is now used very extensively. A great number of | factories now employ electric soldering irons and heating irons. They find it | economical inasmuch as the person pressing out hats or cloth does not have to stop every few minutes to get hot I ,ron from a stove or heater. The elec-
 eric iron is always hot and always ready for use, and the operators ef- | nciency is greatly increased by her hav- l ,n . an electrically heated device rather than one heated by other means. "As to the use of electrical heating annar ratus in the household. It Is safe 1 to say that 1t is constantly encroaching upon the more primitive methods Electrical heating and electrical cook l ing are far superior to any other in the matter of convenience. Wherever
 water must be heated 1t can be heated as economically by the electrical ap- hxx< coal and quch cooking and heating can be more easily done than by any other means.
 "A very important thing about cook. ing and heating by electricity" com tinued Professor Goidsborough, Ifs that it is much more healthy than cooking or heating by coal or gas. Electricity makes less dirt and the apparatus can | be quickly and readily cleaned. Again. you can heat any desired vessel without heating up the rest of your surround inss. You can make coffee without bringing the cook and the room to a high temperature. as you must do if you would heat smaller quantity of water by coal. wood or gas. By the electrical apparatus all the heat is kept l inside the coffee pot and the cook and l the room are at a comfortable tempera- | ture You may see this,cooking going | on in the building. We have here | utensils for the entire range of cook | ing, and they are thoroughly success | fui commercially.
 Trying to Educate the People. | T would like to say" re marked Pro- | lessor Golrsborough, that the exhibits | of the palace of electricity have been designed especially for the general | public rather than for the electrical en- l gineer. This exposition is educational and we are trying to show the people as much as possible about the new I things in the electricity of today. We have here complete arc lighting sys- l tems, so displayed that the layman can | see just how his city plant is operated | and handled, He can, If he will, have all the details explained by calling | upon the attendants in charge of the | exhibit.
 We have also a splendid laboratory here for the testing of large electrical machinery. The facilities of this work
 shop are beyond those of any of our university laboratories. Indeed, a group of eight students could be con-
 tinuously occupied there for more than
 two years, studying the behavior and
 characteristics of electrical machines, and not exhaust its resources. It Is so with many other features They are made for the public and the attend
 ants are ready to answer why and wherefore everything is so that the visitor may carry away the knowledge of much in each exhibit that Is not ap-
 parent on the surface"
 Healing Diseases by Electricity. The use of electricity in curing dis
 ease Is we'll shown in the Electricity Building. Mr. Goldsborough tells me that startling progress has been made | in this field. He has exhibits of the 1 electric 9ight bath, and 1t is, believe, ! possible for a person who feels under 1 the weather to take one here in the full view of the public. In the same way 1 various electric brushes are shown and X-ray instruments of different kinds
 One of the most interesting features l of the Palace of Electricity Is an elec- trlcal apparatus by which the deaf are | made to hear. Classes of deaf mutes
 come here and are thus taught tc
 speak, and through this apparatus theil education can be carried on. Indeed
 tt is believed that 1t will soon be fl
 general use throughout the United States, and that it will do much to bet
 ter the condition of our so-called deal
 and dumb.
 Other New Things.
 But I cannot even~mention the mum Der of new things in electricity which I | in electric lighting. including a factory where incandescent lamps are made 1 The complete process of manufacture | is shown, the factory having an out
 put of more than 1000 lamps per day. And then there are electric locomo- tives, which claim regular speed of more than 100 miles an hour; and tele- graph instruments upon which can be sent from one to two thousand words a minute. There are other instruments | for sending pictures and handwriting by telegraph, and there are also tele- phones and photographs combined, by which one can have recorded on a wax cylinder the messages sent him when ha is away. There are electric motors and generators, some of the motors so small they are just At to run a sewing machine, and some generators so large
 that they do the work of 10000 horses. There are all kinds of storage bat
 teries, some for use in country houses