Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1901 — The Progress in Electrical Science. [ARTICLE]

The Progress in Electrical Science.

As far as dynamos are concerned, the first patent In this line was granted by the United States to Saxton, a citizen. Since then, Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse and others have proven to the world that American Inventors are unrivalled In the construction of new electrical contrivances. The greatest step forward In electricity has, however, been In the propulsion of cars. Here, again, the American blazed the way, for Professor Henry, the inventor of the electromagnet, also constructed the first practical motor. Dr. Page, another Amerkdin, built the first electric locomotive, which, in 1851, drew a train from Washington to Badensburg, at the rate of nineteen miles an hour. Today, there are In the United States about 20,000 miles of electrical railways. In electric lighting, too, America stands first. The greatest searchlight in the world is near Pasadena, Cal. It is one of 3,000,000 candle-power and can be seen for a distance of 150 miles. The first Incandescent lamp we can also claim, being the invention of a Mr. Starr. Moses G. Farmer lighted his home at Salem, Mass., with electricity in 1859, being the first in the world to put electricity to such aAse. Since then, electric lighting has been so developed and has become so popular, tlmt to-day there are about 500,000 arc lights and 25,000,000 incandescent lights in active use in the United States.—Collier’s Weekly.