New Things in Electricity

A number of experts have been giving their opinions as to what the world of 1900 will see in the development of electricity. They say that all the street cars and those of railways to points within 100 miles of the large cities will be propelled by this agent. Electrical canal-boats will glide like romantic gondolas along placid waters, only much faster. Electric brooms will sweep the streets, electric fans will cool the air of homes in summer, electric heaters will warm them in winter, electric cookers and lighting will do away with coal and gas, and the domestic millennium will begin.

Both the arc light and incandescent lamp will be superseded by the Tesla illuminator, which gives a beautiful and mysterious light without the intervention of either globe or lamp. We shall telephone as easily across the ocean as we now do to our friend in the next square. Wherever there are water powers or coalfields electrical energy will be trans mitted to points a hundred miles away. Instead of loading coal upon cars and conveying it to the factory or machine shop to be converted into power, the power itself will be conveyed in the form of electricity.

At this time a machine is at work in several large offices which receives and prints as fast at it arrives all the news of the day. It is like a constant news paper being printed all the time. Print ed matter is rolled off upon a piece of paper in much the same fashion as the ticker prints. A man need not wait for his afternoon paper, but can get the news at once.