The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-06-16
Electrical Notes.


growing in favor abroad The latest
one TO be opened is between Spezit
and Potoyenere. in Italy
Great Britain is seriously consid.
ering the adoption of the electric
mule on the English canals. A
special commission has the matter
under consideration
Several wireless telegraph stations
will be established i'm the Turkish
empire. American experts will train
the Turks to use the instruments.
The city OF Constuntlnople. with
million and a quarter inhabitants. is
without electric light or power.
German capitalists have been grant.
cd concessions nv the Sultan and
the city will very shortly be supplied
with both lights and street railways
Water power will be developed not
far from the Turkish capital
4 shoe shining parlor has been
opened in Denver in which only
elcetro-pneumatic brushes and pol
ishers are used. Electrically heated
irons are also used In the same es.
tablishment for pressing hats and
clothes
Now the church militant recog.
nizes the value Of advertising. The
| Fifth Avenue Baptist church In New
D af hot
Rockefeller Church." has erected
large electric sign, exciting no end
Of comment--and bringing results.
A new type Of direct current gen
orator has been produced by the
General Electric Company. which
gives greater power for less floor
space and can be attached TO walls
nr ceilings
The new copper clad wire for tc'".
| phone and telegraph lines is made
| by welding the copper TO the steel
in electric furnaces before the !ngot
Is drawn into wire. It is claimed
the results are as good as though |
the wire was solid copper and the
saving is coupiderablr.
Damascus Is the first city in the
Turkish empire to be electrified. as
three and a half miles of trolly line
is now under construction. Power
is secured form 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 tatooed by the Sultan.
An electric process for ageing
-four has been perfected. doing away
with the cost Of storage and addi-
! tional floor space. Instead Of let.
ting the flour age by standing, II is |
now done by allowing 1t to come in |
contact with air which has been
ozonized by fash 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 in |
use in Berlin.
The newest things 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, prophe.
sled a few days ago that century |
hence a ship with hardly any ma
chinery would speed across the At |
lantic propelled by electric force |
generated by the falls at Niagara and |
transmitted to the vessel wirelessly. |
This seems incredible, but the cleo
rical wonders of today would have
seemed more so twenty-five years ago
had they been foretoId
Wireless telephone experiments are
being made on the New York curb
between the brokers and their re-
spective offices.
railroad with a 70 per cent
grade, at Weehawken, y. j.. Is. one
up a 300 foot incline and the cars
are 30 feet wide and 40 feet long
and will carry load Of 10000
pounds They ar eoperated by a
33-horsepower electric motor and
make the ascent in one minute.
carrying both freight and passen-
gers.
After a young lady OF Spokane was
nearly dead from hiccoughs, an cleo
trio battery was applied, bringing i'm.
mediate relief Medical men declare
the case is without a parallel In the
northwest.
An electric horn has been patented
for automobiles. The device consists
Of loud electric "buzzer" fitted 20
"A common "toot" horn The blast Is