Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1893 — ELECTRICAL PROGRESS. [ARTICLE]

ELECTRICAL PROGRESS.

D boscq’s el oo trio lamp was shown at V’aris Exposition in 1855. A new company to lay another Atlantic cable was formed In 1880. I 1859 Bonelli devised a method of using electricity in weaving. In 1858 efforts to lay the cable failed on account of a severe storm. An electric time-ball set up in Cornhill, London, by French, in 1806. The laying of the Atlantic cable was begun at Valentia, Ireland, in 1857. An Atlantic cable was first projected in 18 -3 by Cooper, Field, and others. A great electric clock, illuminated, set up in thr Strand, London, in 1852. Duplex telegraphy accomplished by Gintl, 1853, perfected in 1873 by Steal ns. Siemens’ armature was invente 1 and applied to practical use in the year 1854. Is 1858 the third attempt to lay the cable succeeded; 2,050 miles cable laid. Westminster Bridge was brilliantly illuminated by th 6 electric light in 1858. An electric light, devised by Holmes, was tried in a Dover lighthouse in 185 s. Ntw cable between Calais and Dover. Stock quotations from Paris to London, 18 jl. Existence of an electric animal current shown by Du Bois-Reymond in 1855. Manufacture of Atlantic cable was begun in 1837, and 2,500 miles completed. A electric locomotive built in 1851 and exhibited at the Mechanics’ Fair in Boston. First attempts to lay the cable in 1857 a failure, the cable repeatedly snapping. The American combination of printing telegraphs conveyed 2,000 words an hour in 1859. Kuhmkorff’s magneto-electric coil was constructed and first practically used in 1850. The Greenwich clock electrically connected with several London railway clocks in 1860. The first signals passed between Europe and America in 1858. Communinication broken. Communication by land and sea establ shed be'ween London and Constantinople in 1858.