The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1912-04-11
Sparks Electric.

0p8TAS ElcCLIlCs
II is planned to illuminate Magyar.
Falls every night.
Paris will install about 100 motor
vans in the postal service.
About $1,000 steam locomotives in
the United States have electric head
lights.
> An electrically-driven machine that
weighs less than fifty pounds has
been invented to scrub floors.
Occupying but little room in a house
is new clothes dryer in which gar
ments may be dried by electricity,
= Experiments in Sweden have war;
ranted the erection of 1900 horse
power electrical smelling plant for
pig iron.
An electric vehicle is also on trial
for collecting garbage, and if it proves
successful horses will be entirely sup.
planted for this purpose.
In New York City heafy $1,000
new consumers of electric current
are connected per annuln; in Chicago
Is, 600; in Philadelphia $4,000.
Only since the introduction Of high
speed electric machinery into the in
dustry has it been possible to cut a
diamond across the grain.
It is estimated that the total water
power in the state of Minnesota is
$50, 700 horse power, of which only
113, 100 has been developed.
An electric elevator in a New York
office building that travels to height
of 585 feet on each trip is believed to
hold the worlds record.
Many Of the tropical animals at the
Bronx Park suffered from the severe
winter weather and it was necessary
to provide them with electric heating.
1t is claimed upon good authority
that Twin Falls, Idaho, uses more
electricity for heating and cooking, in
proportion to population, than any
other city in the world. A large Of
flee building, recently erected, is en-
tirely heated by electricity.
Throughout the northern country
during the past severe winter cleo
tricity was extensively employed to
thaw out frozen water pipes. In New
York City 400 such cases were ham
died in one week. With the aid of
electricity the pipes can be thawed
without digging up the frozen ground.
After many years of research work
tungsten can now be drawn into wire
one-thousandth of an inch in diameter,
with great tensile strength. This dis
covery is of the greatest importance
to the users of electric light as the
new wire is now being used in incan-
descent lamps, reducing the risk of
breakage to minimum.
1t is quite a surprise to pedestrian
to be walking down city street on a
cold winter morning and see in sew
eral store windows electric fans 60
ing at full speed, just as in the scorch-
ing summer days. These fans pre-
vent the moisture from settling on
the plate glass windows where it
would be quickly turned into frost
and ice, thus obstructing the sales
value of the show windows.
Safe limits of speed are much high
er in electric operation than with
steam locomotives. The rotative ef-
fort is uniform in a motor, while that
of locomotive is intermittent and ac-
complished through the medium of
heavy reciprocating parts. The NOV
ing mass Of these parts as the speed
increases tends to lift the locomotive
from the track and pounds the rails
with blow which, in many instances,
has been sufficient to cause derail-
ment. The limiting speed of steam
trains is about 80 or 80 miles per
hour, while speeds of 1870 miles per
hour have been reached in tests on
electric trains.
Very few people realize just what
horse power, as expressed in engi-
neering terms, really means. When
it is stated that the worlds largest
Curtis steam turbine, which drives
an electric generator in the Water
side Station, New York, develops 3d.
600 horse power the meaning is
vague and incomprehensible. Imag-