Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 28, 1889, Page 8

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, OCTOBER 28 1889, FIRING GUNS BY ELECTRICITY, A New Departure in the Art of Naval Warfare. SUBMARINE TORPEDO BOATS, Bucoessful Experiment With a French * Vessel-A New Railway Tele- graph Device—Thoe Elecs tric Light in Paris. Fired From the Pilot Tower. On some of the larger European ships-of-war, and on a few United States vessels, arrangements have been made for firing the guns by electricity, writes Lieutenant W, S. Hughes, of the United Btates Navy, in the October Scribner. This is usually accomplished by causing the current from an ordinary zinc-car- bon battery to pass through what is known as an electric primer inserted in the vent of the gun. The primer, as used in the United States service, is simply a quilt tube nearly filled with small-grained powder, and contain- fng a fine platinum wire wrap- d with a wasp of gun-cotton. 'he platinum wire is connected with the wires of the electric battery. .When the battery circuit is closed the plati- pum becones instantly white hot, thus igniting the primer and firing the gun. he firing key, with which the may be closed at pleasure, is placed in the pilot tower, or in some other posi- tion where it is directly under the con- trol of the commanding officer, and the circuit is of course kept open lntil the instant of firing. 'The -advantages claimed for such a system are many. Obviously, under some circumstances, as, for example, where it is desirable to concentrate the whole broadside upon a certmin point, and to fire all the guns together, such an arrage- EED bl v o great advantage over the ordinary method of depend- ing upon the simultancous action of the gunners. Again, it 18 no uncom- mon occurrence in battle® for a ship’s unner to become so enveloped in smoke hat the enemy cannot be scen by the men at the guns, and in such cases, with an electrie system, the firing could be done by un officer clear of such an ob- struction. Usually the electrical appli- ances admit, also, of the guns being d singly and in succession; and for cases where the ship is rolling heavily from side to side, an *‘automatic closer”” is sometimes employe h, after the regular firing-key has been wressed, closes the circuit and di charges the guns the instant the vessel reaches an uprught p(muun. Submarine Torp A French contempor: ing to the new submarine tor |m|lo b *Itis not of to-day that search is ma a little in every country, for the hulu- tion of a problem, which seeems now @s impossiblo to solve as that of the steering of loons; it1sof the sub- marine boats that I wish to speak. M, Goubet has just concluded a long series of experimints with a submarine boat of his invention. This boat has been spoken of for a long time. The numer- ovs preceding abortive attempts had put people on their guard against sub- marine vessels. Successful attempts were vainiess against this state of mind until it became necessary to recownize the fact thata solution of the problem had been found when the —that is the name of the vessel—had re- mained eight hours submerged with two men on board, who ate, smoked and layed at cards witheut tho slightest nconvenience. How is this 1 con- structed which so well merits the name of fish boat? This secret, like others relating to national defense, is well kept. But whatever the mechanism and the systom Goubet, the experiments being continued at Cherbourg prove that it isefficacious. The naval author- fties have not such a tender tecling for inventors in g 1 that they would have consented, if the invention had not appeared really ble of render] 10 placs M. Goubet’s disposal a lnmn ‘at the ]mxk of Cherbourg, and also The new boat w &t command to variable depths, and to maintain a perfect equilibrium. The sinking of the Goubet was brought about with tho gre regularity, without oscillation or hocks, quickly or slowly,according to the orders trans- mitted through the telephone wire which communicated between the sub- marine boat and the pontoon, At the different depths the Goubet was maneu- wred at will, and behaved as much like & fish as possible. Cade's Railway Tolegraph. A new form of railway telegraph has been invented by Mr. Baylus Cade, of Louisburg, N. C., says the Electrical ‘World. This apparatus is of the contact type, and consists .suuply of an ordinary box sounding relay with a key on the ‘base, which is placed in the circuit, and maintained there no matter how fast the train runs. “The difficulty of con- structing a cireuit which would allow instruments on the trains to be thrown into circuit and kept there while trains were in motion is, it is claimed, en- tirely overcome, and the cost of con- etruction will not exceed #i0 per mile, tho instrument being capable of adjust- ment to the car in five minutes. Italso bas the great advantage that the opera- tors require no ‘‘phones” to detect the sounds, und can always know if there is any trouble on the line; whereas in the inductive method, if the current in the line conductor fails for any renson to act fnstinotively, the train operator has no meunns of knowing of such failure, Electric Lighting in Paris, The visitor trom' the states who has occasion to go abroad at night in Paris, upon emerging from the exhibition, which is briliiantly lighted in all parts, Dboth by electricity and gas, enters into compurative darkuess, and sighs for the arc lamp which he is accustomed to seo at the street corner of even the smallest towns of the states, says the Electrical World. With the exception of the lights on a few of the boulevards there is no electric street lighting in Paris. When the exhibition was about to be opened the Paris municipality, considering it important to have its streets atleast in part, well lit, gave out contracts to different companies, allot- ting to each about fifty lamps. Among these companies were those operating the system of Marcel Deprez, the Edison company and Thomson-Houston com- ny. These lamps are placed on the ue Royale, running from the Place de 1a Concorde up to the Boulevara de la Madeleine along the Boulovards des Capucines, des Italiensand Mont 1 took occusion to examine the son-Houston system, which is run in con- nection with the Popp system of dist bution of power by means of com- pressedair, Oune of their inswllations is ghwed in the Eden theater, wheve they ave two machines furnishing sixty ave llghu‘ Of these forty-nine lights are rluyed about the theater, eight of hich are employed as foot-lizhts, and m this station also eleven stroet bt are run, At the other station on the Boulevard des Capucines two ma- chines operate twenty-nine public lights and about fourteen or fifteen private ligh' All the circuits, of course, are underground, and the lamps are in series, On the other arc system tho lamps are connected two in series across the lines, the E. M. F\. being only 110 volts. Such as it is, the arc lighting in Paris is good, the Rue Royal, less than one-quarter of a_mile long, especially being very well lit. In looking over the ground, however, it would scem al- most certain that considerable economy could be attained by the use of arc lights in Paris to place the large number of gas lamps in use. To bo fair, it must be said that the Paris uu- thorities are by no means stingy in their use of gas on the streets, but the results are, it seems, not up to the cost which such a large number of lights must involve. Take] for instance, the Place de la Concorde, a space measuring about five hundred to seven hundred feet and containing ln-u\mhl_v between five hundred and six hundred gas lamps, There can not be the slightesy doubt that thirty or forty amps well distributed would give a far better illumination than 1s now ob- tained. Again. on the Avenue des Champs 1~mww there are running from the Place de la Concorde up to the Arc de Triomphe, a distance of about a mile and a half, four rows of gus lamps, the latter being placod at an average distance of fifty feet apart, while at fre- quent intervals in lH(\ middle of the rondway two extra high gas lamps are sll\ml(‘j. Thus, while; I would not ad- voeate arc lamps in some of the narrow, crooked streets of Paris. there are a guffieient number of beautiful, wide str in which the are lights would show up to the improvement of the street and conduce to economy at the same time. AsI have said before, the present arc lighting in Paris is merely provisional, but it is greatly to be hoped that at the end of the exhibition some permanent arrangement will be arrived at and the systom oxtended. Gamblers and Eiectrioity. It has been suggested recently that instead of using the vel! known to trans-atlantic traveldy the dishes might be held on the table by means of electricity. This would be y tho use ‘of a number of electro-maguates placed immediately below the table cover,which couid be made by closing an electrie circuit, to y attract the various dishes, they having been provided with iron bottoms. A similar device has been designed by certmin gamblers who, like the rest of the world are quick to avail them- ves of ele Ll'l\':\&- aid. The tloaded dice of to-day have the same specific gravity, but “have a picce of irou insort- ed opposite the side which is wanted to turn up throughout, so that whea thrown on an ordinary table they are governed only by the law of chance,but when cast on the magnetic table at the gambling den can be made to_turn up *‘three sixes or not at the will of the person controlling the secret button connecting the battery with the eloctro- magnates., cctricity, gineering has taken among the manufac- nf the world, is exem- ing way by the facy ago at Gla: g0V cast- ing of Siemen’s steel was ully run containing no le wnu tons of metal, for tho \1\.1!'1, ul ”Xu mon- ster Ferranti dynamo now under con- struction for the London Electrie sup- ply covporation. When turned, bored and finished the shaft wiil weigh about thirty-two tons. It is seldom a steel casting of such magnitude has been made for any purposc, and when we re- flect that t is for a dynamo, we be- gin to realize that electric lighting has a pretty firm footing. The Opelt hotel, as now conducted, is not surpassed by uny hotel in the ci as umnmnum, umllmhhlu place for am IN_ Lt Uunuuh- Casting by That electrical en, a foremost place turing industrie plified 1 o str that a few d Q. HayiLro The Father of Twenty-Two Children, Dr. James H. Gordon, of Greenville, IlL., 18 seventy-two years old and tho father of twenty-two children. Seven of these were Doys, and. with one ex- ception, all became phy E a ained more than ordinary success The exception was a son who was accident- ally killed while a student at the St, Louis Medical. college. To take the place of this one, though, there is an only living son-in-law who is a med- ical practitioner. , Proprictor. e ALE Cough no more, Red Cross cough drops will cure your cold. 5 cents a box. 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