Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-04-01
COAL TO BE ABANDONED.
Electrical World Is Coming Soon, Says
Wizard Steinmetz.

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Wizard Steinmetz.
From Brooklyn Eagle.
Cooking and heating by electricity Is
nothing now. Nor is the electrfying
of railroads. nor the operating Of facto-
~ plants by electricity. But just at
present the cost of electrity is too high
to rcvolutionize entirely all our domcs-
tic life.
DR.. Charles P. Steinmetz, electrical
wizard of world wide reputation. pre-
diets the day when electricity will be so
cheap that, it will be universally used,
when the goversment will not allow
fires of any kind within the city limits,
because they are dangerous, dirty and
unsanitary; dangerous because of con-
flagrations. dirty because of handling
the coal and ashes, and unsanitry be-
cause of the smoke and gases in the air.
Will Regulate Temperature.
He says further:
mo fires will mean no furnaces in
the cellar, no ranges in the kitchen, and
no steam power plants. When we use
nothing but electrical power for heat
ing lighting and other purposes, the
supply will come through transmission
lines from big central stations of many
millions horsepower. These stations
will be located wherever power is avail
able, such as waterfalls, coal mines and
oil and gas wells. This will eliminate
the wasteful process of hauling coal
from the mines to the small power
houses now scattered all over the coun-
try.
"All these steps tend toward cheaper
electricity. Startling will be the change
when this time comes. At present when
VIC want to keep warm on cold day we
use furnace, kitchen range, the fire
place and other unsatisfactory and un-
sanitary methods. In the summer when
the temperature is above normal, we
are practically helpless and have toI
suffer. Electric fans give some relief
when heating is all done electrically
and 1 want 70 degrees in my home VI
shall set the thermostate at 10 and the
temperature will not rise above that
point This temperature will be main
tained uniformly. regardless Of the
weather OUTSIDE. This will also hold
true on the warm days when the tom
pcrature outside may be 90 or 100 de-
grces. The same electrical apparatus
will cool the air. and what's more it
will also keep the humidity normal al
al! times.
Electrical Cooking.
, "Then, too, there is ventilation. which
does not exist in the average homo to-
day. At present we have to depend on !
windows, doorways and electrical fans
TO blow the bad air out and with it we
lose, in winter, most of the heat We
produce in our furnaces. When cleo
tricity is developed we will have an ap-
paratus for bringing fresh air into the
house, destroying the bad air. and re-
covering the heat from the warm cN-
hauSt air. -
Cooking by electricity will also be-
much moro satisfactory. No more coal
ranges and great deal Of our food can
be cooked on the tabio. This can also |
be automatically regulated. Fur 'cN-
emplc we want to cook cake. We
know this should be at Il heat or 22o
degrees for period of 45 minutes, so
we set the regulator at 2SO-45 and !
cease TO worry. At the expiration. OF
forty-tivc minutes the heat is automat-'
ically turned off.
Entertainment in our homes VIII
also be improved There will be no
need 10 go to some congcsted, poorly |
ventilated hall for Il musical concert.
We just push plug into base rcccp-
tuclc, as we do for the vacuum cleaner
or table lamp, and VIC can have the !
concert brought into our homes; also
the sermon.
ITO suppose that We arc approaching
q limit is absurd There is no more end
TO invention than there is to science.
Every new scientific discovery gives
rise to thousands Of inventors. The !
electrical development is still in its in
fancy"