Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-11-09

will connect Genoa and Milan, italy.
which Will cost $47.900.00O The road will
require nineteen tunnels, one of which
will be twelve miles long. There will
be 372 bridges and the work of con-
struction will take six years. Power
will be secured from a $4,000 horse DOW
er hydraulic generating plant.
There are twelve street railway COM
panies in Chile and eleven different
cages of track.
The only electric railway in Bolivia
is In La Paz, where six miles Of 1OO-
mile steam railroad has been electrified.
Women are employed as conductors
on the double decked street cars of
Valparaiso and Santiago, Chile. The
women were originally employed when
men went to war. Both cities have
good transportation facilities.
The kitchen at West Point is a model
of electrical development Several
barrels of potatoes used daily in feed
ing the cadets are peeled by i machine
driven by electricity. The si!verware
| is polished. eggs beaten, meat and vege-
tables are chopped and dishes are
washed by the same power.
| An electric pie making machine is in
every day use in a Boston bakery.
| The electric heating rug is the latest.
1t works on tine same principle as the
electric heating pad. and when spread
on the floor furnishes a mild, steady
| and permanent source of heat.
| A fad for table decoration is an cleo
trio fountain which plays a tiny stream
Of water over a colored electric light.
The fountain is produced by a small
electric pump and water connections
arc not necessary.
DR.. Carl II. Won Klein, of Chicago,
has scheme to electrocute baccilli. AL
| though his experiments have been con-
fined to milk. water and vegetables,
where the method has been very sue
Cessful. it is claimed the process will
destroy disease germs in the human
body.
According to government statistics
every person in the United States uses.
annually, about seven dollars worth OF
i electricity in some form. Trolley rides
lead at $500 per capita; electric light
is second with sl.50 per capita. Every
man, woman and child buys $1.25 worth
of electric apparatus and supplies. uses
IS cents worth of telephone service, and
50 cents worth of kilograms and fire
| alarms.
| In view of the fact that railroads
are rapidly changing to electric motive
power. it is argued that the wireless
telephone. if perfected. would be of the
greatest Importance in this field for
signal work. 1t would enable the en-
gineer to call up any station or train
and obtain full and unmistakable in
formation.
| An electrically rocked cradle is one
of the latest devices. A plug and tleNi-
BILE cord are attached to a convenient
lamp socket and a turn of the button
rocks the cradle. A tiny switch gov
erns the speed. The power that rocks
the cradle rocks the world.
| The principle Of electricity welding
is best explained as follows: Alternat-
! ing currents of electricity are passed
through the AUDITING ends of pieces of
metal which are to be welded. gcnerat-
ing heat at the point Of contact, while
mechanical pressure is required to
force the parts together. AS the cur
rent heats the metal at the junction
the pressure follows up the softening
surfaces until a complete weld is ef-
fected. Its greatest achievement lies
in the welding of all parts pertaining
to the manufacture of wire. sheet steel,
tin, and kindred metals.