Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1887 — Applied Electricity. [ARTICLE]

Applied Electricity.

The applications of electricity are daily becoming more varied, and the remarkable growth of electrical industries is a subject of interest to most observing people. It is difficult to realise that only ten years ago the commercial applications of electricity with ■which the public was fami iar might have been summed up in the electric telegraph and its subsidiary systems, and yet such, is the fact. Nevertheless the money value of the capital mvested in electrical enterprises at the present time, is only probably exceeded, in any single industry, by the amount invested in Steam transportation and in municipal gas lighting. This rapid extension of the electrical arts is not largely due,, however, to the discovery of new principles nor to inventions of a revolutionary Character, but chiefly to the perfecting of details and practical modifications in old s stems operated by well-known methods.-—Pres-eott, in the Chcrutauquan.

Bev. Robebt Cushman preached at Plymouth, Nov. 9, 1621, what was the first sermon ever delivered in New England by a regularly ordained minister.