SPARKS AND FLASHES.
Iranee pays England stoat HOME a year In cable rent. (i AU Italy will soon bi placed to*telephonic communication with Paris, London and Berlin. A long distance underground telephone line is being eetabkshed between Buffalo and Washington. Bt. Paul's cathedral, London, is being electrically equipped at a eoet of $45,000, which is to be paid by J. P4erpont Morgan.
The Chicago ft Alton locomotive headlights will throw an eleetrie light 3,000 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 waterfall* which abound in Sweden con be utilized ,to furnish electric power to operate Swedish railroads. Home coal is too impure. The new Oanz electric system in Italy which is creating „such a tortf throughout the world among electrical and mechanical engineers has*given a speed in prelkninary trials of 45 miles an hour, up grade. The gsaer--tnvs supplied 21,090 volts without
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3601, 23 November 1905, Page 4
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164SPARKS AND FLASHES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3601, 23 November 1905, Page 4
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