ELECTRICITY UBIQUITONS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1168, 18 July 1884, Page 3

ELECTRICITY ÜBIQUITONS.

Owing principally to the ignorance of writers, to the artificial system of education imposed upon elementary schoolmasters oy the existing system, and also pernaps to the rate at which men live, the universality of electric phenomena (says the ‘ Electrician ’) is but little understood. The servant brushing a coat, cleaning windows, beating a o irpet, placing a kettle on the tire to boil, sifting cinders, etc ; the carpenter using his plane or brush ; the school-boy or girl ru fining out the lines in his or her book ; the master making or maiding his pen is, during the time he or s.ie is employed, as effectually an electrical machine as the most elaborate appara’ns made by the art of Elliott or Holtz Many manufacturers find “electricity” a nuisance. In the weaving of various fabrics, such for example as those in which si.k and wool are us d, the work is very electrical. Mr B. Bright’s -aper before the Society'of Telegraph Kugin-‘era will give full details of the troubles arising in weaving and the methods of ov. rconring the difficulties. In making nboco are, sealing wax, in the manufacture of glass, in the grinding of Colfee, and so on. care has to lie exercised, or instead of the pure artie'e we shou'd obtain one highly charge I with dust, not useable, and tbeiefore unsaleable. Even the glamour of toe action of electricity must be taken into our corn mills, for electricity is one of the principal causes assisting to make the miller white. When we brash our hair, or vvalk over the carpet, we are generators of electricity. In fact, it would seem that the greater portion of the work of the wor d is done in rendering electrical phenomena cognisant to our senses. Frbtion is largely or wholly an electrical phenomena. It must not be supposed that electricity is always in the way. The gilders, if they only knew, could tell a different tale, for their work ,is ofttimes aided by electricity, as is that of various workers with paper and so on. Electricity is as universal as gravitation.