Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-10-02
ELECTRIC SCIENCE BRIEFS.

ELECTRIC SCIENCE BRIEFS.
Electricity is life" is hackneyed
| aphorism, but from such a result one can
only conclude that vitality and eleetr city
| are synonymous. When, therefore Ju
partake of fruit, though you seem to be
| merely gratifying a natural appetite. You
are in reality absorbing a certain proper
ton of electric energy into the system.
| For the innoceut-looking red-cheeked APP
pie is nothing more or less than a small
electric accumulation. 1t possesses, it is
| true, only small unit of electric ener-
gy, but this energy is sufficient TO be
detected by an extremely sensitive in
| Strument like the Kelvin galyanometer.
A Jersey City inventor has produced
an electric egg beater for hotels and res
! taurants where eggs are used in large
! quantities. Like most electric devices,
| 1t is q case or you press the button and
| the machine will do the rest. The beat
err consists of a vertical support, with an
arm holding the egg beaten shaft. Below
| this is an adjustable bracket. provided
| with a bow, in which the eggs are
placed. BY pressing the button the beat
| er is set to revolving swiftly in the bowl,
| and quickly produces the desired result
THE ElectrolyZer" is a device for pro-
ducing clothes bleaching liquid by cleo
| tricity from ordinary salt brine. The
| new method. it is claimed. saves linen,
| takes the place of chloride of lime. or
other bleaches. and reduces the cost of
| the bleach from 30 to so per cent. The
new machine can be used in laundries,
paper mills, pulp mills, cotton mills, etc.
| The new electric device has just been
patented to press suits while you wait
| with the clothes on. Electric heated
| plates, which are squeezed together by
| levers, are used to put the creases III
| the trousrS-
The longest transmission line in the
world is that from De Saba to Sauseli-
| to in northern California. Its length is
| 232 miles. The transmission line from
Niagara Fails to Syracuse is 165 miles
long and is next to the De Saba line in
| length.
| The government of Bavaria is taking
preliminary steps for the substitution of
electric power, produced from water
| falls for steam power on the state
owned railroads. Careful and exhaust
i've surveys and estimates were made
| in advance, and provision has just been
made for the first installment of the
! funds TO be expended for this purpose.
| The first electrical installations are to be
on three lines located near the Austrian
| frontier In the lakes and rivers of the
Bayarian Alps there is an abundant
source Of supply for water power, but
/ imperfectly utilized at present. The ex-
listing falls alone, it is estimated, would
| furnish 100000 horsepower.
| The Isthmian canal commission has
ordered of the General Electric company
six vertical Curtis steam turbine gem
orators of 1900 kilowatt, 2000-horsepow-
| er each.
| Thomas w Lee, until two years ago
general passenger agent of the Della
ware, Lackawanna u Western railroad.
| is the first man in the world TO farm by
| electricity. Lee owns The Bungalow
tract of more than 1000 acres near
Idaho Falls, and all he has to do now
when he wishes to farm, is TO push
button. Electricity does the rest. The
grain was reaped, stacked, threshed
sacked, and made ready for market by
electricity Mr.. Lee also did his having
| by electricity.
| Nitrogen extracted from the air by
electricity is the best fertilizer in the
world. The process is being tried out i'll
| Norway. According to the report just
issued by the company, the total produc-
| ton at their new works during the first
three months of the current year was
| 1853 tons of nitrate and twelve tons of
| sodium nitrate. At the smaller expert
mental plant, which has been running
since 1905 by the Norwegian Hydroelec-
| trical Nitrate company, over a thousand
tons were produced last year, so that
though the output, of course, is still al
most inappreciable as regards the
worlds consumption. A ton of nitrogen
requires eight or nine horsepower per
| year for conversion into fertilizer.
| The largest static electric machine
ever built is owned by New York ply
stefan. and is feet over all, feet long,
and 4 feet wide. weighing $50 pounds
! 1t has forty glass discs each 40 inches
] in diameter. of which twenty revolve
while the others remain stationary. 1t
| is driven by an electric motor of u -horse-
power, being first excited by a small
auxiliary hand machine, and at full
speed may yield spark 80 inches long
and q inch in diameter. To fully ex-
cite the huge machine requires from 3
| to 10 minutes. the charge, however, be-
ing maintained for as much as II to 10
| hours.
Wireless telegraph messages were re-
ceived at San Diego, Cal, from the flag
ship Connecticut, distance of 2900
miles.
! The gross orders received by the Cen
eral Electrical company for the first six
months of the fiscal year beginning
March 1. We're approximately $21. 000,-
600. This is about 60 per cent. of the
new business booked for the same period