Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1901 — Electricity in the Household. [ARTICLE]

Electricity in the Household.

Now that electric motors are cheap to buy, cheap to run, and simple to operate, there Is no good reason why they should not be forthwith Installed in a million of our homes. A Diehl motor, using one-tenth of a horsepower at a- eost_in New York city of one cent an hour, runs a sewing machine with ease. A motor of double this size, of one-fifth of a horse-power, rotates a washing machine, and then, with electrical versatility, turns a wringer or a mangle. In summer a motor as small as you please drives a fan, and refreshes air otherwise mo-

tionless and muggy. If the house contains a workshop, another motor turns the lathe, or the pottery wheel, or actuates a loom, a set of carving tools or a lens-grinder.