SPARKS AND FLASHES.
Vrano* pays England a boat A 100,000 a year in cable rent. All Italy will soon be plated la telephonic sommunlsatloa with Pasts,. London and Berlin. A long distance underground telephone Uae is being established between Buffalo and Washington. SI. Paul’s cathedral, London, is being electrically equipped at a coat of fit,ooo, which is to b« paid by J. Pierpont Morgan. The Chicago A Alton locomotive headlights will throw an electric light 3,000 feet ahead. Power is generated by a small dynamo on the top of the engine behind the smokestack. Bzperimsnts 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 raUroada. Home coal is too Impure. The new Oans electric system la Italy which Is creating such a furor throughout the world among electrical and mechanical engineers has given a speed in preliminary trials of 41 miles an hour, up grade. The genersupplied 21,000 volts without
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3614, 20 February 1906, Page 4
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166SPARKS AND FLASHES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3614, 20 February 1906, Page 4
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