SPARKS AND FLASHES.
France pays England about £IOO,OOO a vcir in cable rent.
All Italy Vvi 11 soon be placed in telephonic 'communication -with Paris, London and Berlin.
A long distance underground telephone line is being established between 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. Pier--1 pout Morgan. The Chicago. &, Alton locomotive headlights will throw an electric light :j,OOO feet ahead. Power is generated by a small dynamo on the top of the ebgine behind the smokestack. Experiments are ordered by the Swedish# government to determine whether the waterfalls which abound in Sweden can be utilized to furnish ehetric power to operate Swedish rail- ! roads. Home coal is too impure, i The new Ganz electric system in i Italy which is creating such a furor ' throughout the world among electrical 1 and mechanical engineers has given a speed in preliminary trials of 45 1 miles an hour, up grade.' The gener«inrS supplied 21,000 volts without . « j
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3547, 15 July 1905, Page 4
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172SPARKS AND FLASHES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3547, 15 July 1905, Page 4
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