SWITZERLAND.
Switzerland is gradually becoming an an object lesson to the nations of Europe in the practical application of scientific principles. Geneva now derives all the electricity it requires for public and private lighting and the traction of its cars from the impetus of the Bhone, as it rushes out of Lake Lewan, and there is, says the London Daily Telegraph, still left an enormons amount of power unused. Electric railways and lighting everywhere are supplied by the innumerable Swiss waterfalls, while heat and power to an incalculable extent could be derived from the same sources. In all directions electric railways already reach or approach the summits of the mountain peaks, or are being planned to do so. The cascade from a comparatively small glacier supplies all the power necessary for the railway in the Gorner Grat. Two years hence an electric line already completed and open to the Eiger Glacier will have reached the Mer de Glace on the Jungfrau. When completed it will carry travellers to within 100 yards of the summit, and thence they will be hoisted to the very top by an electric lift.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 20 November 1901, Page 4
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188SWITZERLAND. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 20 November 1901, Page 4
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