SPARKS AND FLASHES.
France pays England about £IOO,OOO a year In cable rent. All Italy will soon be placed in telephonic communication with Pari«, Loudon and Berlin. A distance underground teiehone line is being established be.ween Buffalo and Washington. .St. Paul’s cathedral, London, is being electrically equipped at a cost of $45,000, which is to be paid by J. Pierpont Morgan. The Chicago & Alton locomotive headlights will throw an electric light ;,000 feet ahead. Power is generated by a small dynamo on the top of the engine behind the smokestack. Experiments are ordered by the Swedish government to determine whether the waterfalls which abound in Sweden can be utilized to furnish electric power to operate Swedish railroads. Home coal is too impure. The new Gsnz electric system in Italy which is creating such a furor throughout the world among electrica l and mechanical engineers has given a speed in preliminary trials of 45 miles an hour, up grade. The genev.*.wS supplied 21,000 volts without
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3527, 27 May 1905, Page 4
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164SPARKS AND FLASHES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3527, 27 May 1905, Page 4
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