Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-08-02
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tro.magnets ale extensively used. The
Illinois Steel Company has a magnet
weighing 200 pounds which lifts six
tons. These magnets simplify the work
ing of cranes. They are lowered to the
mass of metal to be lifted with the cur.
rent turned off; at the throw of a switch
the magnet becomes active and holds the
metal while it is being raised, transport
I'd and placed. By this device no assist
ant is needed to attach the casting to the
conveyors.
The Canadian government will pay a
bounty on iron produced in electrical
furnaces in that country. In the cleo
trical furnace the proper temperature
can be produced in IA minutes which
would require an hour and half in the
present blast furnace. The bounty ranges
from 80 cents to $40 ton.
AT the Schenectady plant of the Gener-
al Electric Company so, 600 cars are used
annually for the shipment of electrical
machinery.
A new automatic electric mail lift has
been approved by the Postmaster-G ener-
al for large apartment houses. The post
man unlocks glass door and deposits
the mail in the carrier The shutting of
the door starts the lift which ascends,
leaving and emptying the boxes at the
proper floors. Descending it picks up
the empty boxes.
The most powerful generating station
in Europe is located at Brusio, Switzer-
land. 1t is also the highest water power
ever used for power purposes. The wa
ter of the Poshacino is lead through a
great conduit three miles long to the
reservoir, from which five sets of enor-
nous pipes conduct it to the power sta
ton 1880 feet below. Electrical energy
to the amount of $4,000 horse power is
generated.
An electric railroad eighty miles long
will connect Genoa and Milan, Italy,
which will cost $47,OOO,OOO 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, 900 horse power
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 a 100-mile
steam railroad have been electrified.
Women are employed as conductors on
the double decked street cars of Valpa-
raise and Santiago, Chile. The women
were originally employed when the men
went away to war. Both cities have good
transportation facilities.
The kitchen at West Point is a model
of electrical development. Several bar.
rels OF potatoes used daily in feeding the
cadets are peeled hy machine driven by
electricity. The silverware is polished,
eggs are beaten. meat and vegetables are
chopped and dishes are washed by the
same power.
An electric pie making machine is in
every day use in Boston bakery.
The electric heating rug is the latest.
1t works on the same principle as the
electric heating pad, and when spread
OH tHe d Sleduy anu
permanent source of heat.
A fad for table decoration is an electric
fountain which plays tiny stream OF
water over colored electric light. The
fountain is produced by small electric
pump and water connections are not
necessary.
DR.. Carl H. Won Klein, of Chicago, ha:
scheme to electrocute bacilli. Al
/ 4 hox
fined to milk, water and vegetables, where
the method has been very successful. il
Is claimed the process will destroy d.
sease germs in the human body.
According to government statistics
every person in the United States uses
annually, about seven dollars worth Of
electricity in some form. Trolley ride,
lead at $500 per capita; electric light il
second with $3.50 per capita. Every
man, woman and child buys S1.25 worth
of electric apparatus and supplies, use
70 cents worth of telephone service, anC
so cents worth of kilograms and fir,
alarms.
In view of the fact that railroads arr
rapidly changing TO electric motiv,
power, it is argued that the wireless tele
phone, if perfected, would be of tn,
greatest Importance in this field for sig
nal work. 1t would enable the enginee
to call up any station or train and Obtain
full and unmistakable information.
An electrically rocked cradle is one o
the latest devices. A plug and flexible
cord are attached to a convenient lam
socket and turn of the button rocks tn,
cradle. A tiny switch governs the speed
The power that rocks the cradle rock
the world.
The principle of electric welding is bes
explained as follows: Alternating cur
rents of electricity are passed through
the abutting ends of pieces of meta
which are to be welded. generating hea
at the point of contact, while mechanics
pressure is required to force the part
together. As the current heats the meta
at the junction the pressure follows VI
the softening surfaces until complet
weld is effected, Its greatest achieve
ment lies in the welding of all parts per
tanning to the manufacture of wire