The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1907-07-11
RriefS About Electrical DEVELOPMENT.

A bill is before the legislature OF
Texas providing that all locomotives
in that state be equipped with cleo
trio headlights.
fl'rackiess electric trolley lines are
growing in favor abroad. The latest
one to be opened is between Spezla
and Portovenere, in Italy.
Great Britain is seriansly consider
ing the adoption Of the electric niue
on the English canals. 4 special COM
mission las the matter under con-
sideration.
Several wireless telegraph static .
will be established in the Turkish
empire. American experts will train
the Turks to use the instruments.
The city of Constantinople, with q
million and quarter inhabitants. is
without electric light or power. Ger
man capitalist have been granted
concessions by the Sultan and tie
city very shortly will be supplied with
both lights and street railways. Water
power will be developed not far from
the Turkish capital.
A shoe shining parlor has been
opened ia Denver in Which only cleo
tro-pneur2atic brushes and polishers
ars used. Electrically heated irons
are also used in the same establish
ment for pressing hats and -lotErs.
Row the church militant recog-
nizes the value of advertising. The
Fifth Avenue Baptist church in New
York City. better known as the
Rockefeller Church. has erected
a large electric sign, exciting no end
of comment and bringing results.
A new type of direct current gen
orator has been produced by the Gen
eral Electric Company. which aives
greater power for less floor space
and can be attached to walls or cell
ings.
The new copper clad wire for tele-
phone and telegraph lines is made
by welding copper to the steel in
electric furnaces before the ingot is
drawn into wire. It is claimed the
results are as good as though the
wire were solid copper and the saving
is considerable.
Damascus is the first city in tbs
Turkish empire to be electrified, as
three and half miles of trolley line
is now under construction. Power
is secured from the falls Of the
River Barara, twenty-five miles
from the city. The Turks believed
for many years that electricity was
the devils power, and for this reason
it was tabooed by the Sultan.
An electrical process for aging
-four has been perfected, doing away
with the cost of storage and addi-
tional floor space. Instead Of letting
the flour age by standing, it is now
done by allowing it to come in con-
tact with air which has been ozon-
lied by flash Of electricity caused
by the breaking Of an arc. The
oxygen of the air, turned to ozone,
acts chemically on the flour.
An electrically driven hearse is il
use in Berlin.
The newest thing in Teddy bears
IS one that has tiny incandescent
lights for eyes. A storage battery
is provided, and when the bears
paws are squeezed the eyes light up.
Sir Hugh Bell, Of London, pro-
phesied a few days ago that cen
fury hence ship with hardly any
machinery would speed across the
Atlantic propelled by electric force
generated by the falls at Niagara
and transmitted to the vessel wire
lessly. This seems Incredible, but
the electrical wonders of to-day
would have seemed more so twenty
five years ago had they been fore
told.
Wireless telephone experiments
are being made on the New York
curb between the brokers and their
respective officers.
A railroad with a u per cent grade,
at Weehakeen, N. j., is one of the
queerest ever built. 1t runs up a
800 foot incline and the cars are 20
feet wide and 40 feet long and will
carry a load of $4,000 pounds. They
are operated by 300-horsepower cleo
trio motors and make the ascent in
one minute, carrying both freight
and passengers.
Long Live the King!