Electric Dangers.
A Home journal gives the following caution to danger from exposed electricighfc wire:— t:> Apropos of the recent" death of a. workmau through the current from the wire of a Brush arc -lamp, Mr. Edison is said to hare confided to • the reporter of a New York 'paper his opinion that such accidents would continue to increase, with the multiplication, of wires carrying powerful currents," till - some dreadful accident were to arouse public indignation and compel the placing all Buch; wires Underground.; In case 1 of fire particularly, the breaking of a, great number of wires, which would be thrown down m inextricable, confusion by the fall of a roof, might have serious results. Mr Park Benjamin, a wellknown scientific man, has called attention m New York to the fact that a stream of water from a hose-nozzle, striking a broken arc>«Ught wire; might easily serve to conduct the ourrent through the body, of the ; fireman who held the hose with fatal consequences ; while the cutting of such a wire with an axe, particularly if. the handle of the axel were wet, might have a like effect." d
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 45, 17 January 1883, Page 2
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190Electric Dangers. Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 45, 17 January 1883, Page 2
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