THE USES OF ELECTRICITY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8158, 16 July 1906, Page 4

THE USES OF ELECTRICITY.

The uses to which electricity can be put appear to be simply legion, and the n 'ar future seems to hold for the World's inhabitants who can afforJ to pay for the conveniences supplied, tyery comfort and luxury a" the minimum of effort. The Electric City of the future will supply all labor for the household, and should settle once and tor all the domestic servant question. The future apartment building will be supplied |with electrical appliances which will be automatic in their action and efficient beyond the fondest droams of the most exacting housewife The bugbear of washing and wiping dishes, for instance will be entirely removed; for each apartment will be filled with an electrical dish-washing machine, which, with the aid of a hot water f.mcct, will automatically perform the operation. The serving of meals will be simplified by elaborate systems of dumb waiters and signalling devices, •o that dwellers in apartment buildings or guests at an hotel can have almost any dish served automatically without unnecessary delay, by simply pressing a button. Already in some Continental cities and in New York, there are auto* mntic lunch counters, where customers can secure hot or cold drinks by tiepositing coins ia an automatic deyice which serves the article required. In cjoking, cleaning, and in every description of house work, electricity will displace manual labor, whilo the electric city of the future will be a blaz» of light, with its myriads of lights, turning night into day almost, along its principal thoroughfares.