Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1894 — An Electrically Lighted Colliery. [ARTICLE]

An Electrically Lighted Colliery.

A big colliery in Lanarkshire, Scotland, is to be lighted by electricity throughout. The electric light plant, as proposed, is divided into three parts. In the first the dynamo will run 800 lamps in the colliery itself, to be distributed both throughout the pit and above ground". Another is devoted to the lighting of thirty-four workmen’s cottages, which are about 700 yards fjom the colliery, there being three lights in each cottage, or a total of 102 lamps in all. The third consists of a complete electric pumping plant, capable of delivering 100 gallons of water per minute from the adjacent river to the colliery. The dynamos for the lighting of the pit and the workmen’s cottages are being so constructed that each dynamo can be used for either purpose. Both machines are designed to give a constant pressure of current at the cottages ; that is, no matter what demand for current ’ there may be at any time in other parts of the plant, there will never be a dim light in the workman’s cottage.—[New York Sun. A Russian scientist has succeeded in tracing all a man’s disease to the fact that he wears clothes.