Omaha daily bee., 1908-05-03

electric fan revolving something like 200
times every minute. No other power was
ever adapted to these purposes. No belt
from steam engine would whirl a fan
for an air washer; no steam nor water
motor would ever permit of running an
electric fan first in a hospital ward, then
in an office and finally keeping the cook
cool in the kitchen-and the whole thing
carried about with less trouble than an
old kerosene lamp.
Services of Many Motors.
Other motors which are operated with so
little electricity that a score of horsepower
would run all in the city are the drills
and small machinery and tools about a
dentists workshop. Hanging down over a
dentists chair a small motor INSIDE a
bronze ball about the size of an ordinary
base ball operates machinery and drills
which were formerly propelled by clumsy
foot power, the dentist being required to
move the footpower every time he changed
position. But with the little motor he gets
a steady power ana shuts Il off or turns
it on at viii by pressing tiny button on
the drill stock which hs holds in his hand.
From hosting an elevatCr in the Union
station, which will lift three tons Of peo-
pie, the electric current turns 10 running
a massage machine in arber shop or
beauty parloT'' where wrinkles are lr0ned
out, pores opened AMI blackheads removel.
all by a vibrating rubber hand run with a
current about as strong as that which
whirls an electrF fan.
Nor is the bsrber who has an electric
massage machine In advance OF the modern
groom at the stables who has an cleo .ric
hair-clipPing machine which wiz cip
horses back in any style from rsquirins
half a day TO a day 10 give a horse d
hair cut" II is now done IN q few miau e.,
and the horses enjoy The vibrations Of the
electric machine as cOmpE! ed 10 The hair
pulls Of the hand machine.
Builders Get Its Assistance.
over the city where hailOels are putting
steel in place a workman no longer turns
a drill which makes holes where needed
for rivets. but from The nearest line OF
the street railway company he takes
current from feed wire or from The cleo
trio light company the little motor is car
ried 10 the top Of the tenth story or 10 the
basement and the drills quickly penetrate
the hardened metal
Now ana then rails at the switches are
too high and The cars are IN dance Of b.
ing thrown from The track A iitue mOtsr
comes out in work car, is attached TO
the track and trolley wire. A complete ma
chine shop grindstOne and emery wh=e.
quickly cuts down the steel.
Then the concrete workers want 20 mix
cement, sand and crushed rock for a side
walk OF retaining wall. No steam engine
dirty smoke and coal wagon attachment is
necessary. The concrete mixer IS run by
power from the wires in the nearest alley
and motor so small that d. is necessary
10 look for il by the side Of the great
cement mixer. From the cement mixer the
current fits through the wires. On ana on
Nirh its invisible force. ana stops IN a
kitchen long enough 10 cook meal then
upstairs IL runs a sewing machine while
AT the same time in a factory il is running
500 sewing machines and ironing clothes
without the danger Of burning. Once set
the switch for the amount Of current
needed TO bring the irons TO certain heat
and they will become no hotter, nor do
they ever get cool until the current is
| turned off