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Show ' lb BAM ERJ ca:s. IS ,1, III ELECTRICAL 'WEEKlM I ! IPb "Dec 2 Dec. 9 mmy a x (MI OF d WEEK OF' ELECTRICAL i DISPLAYS With the touching of a button that sent" a current of electricity into all of the wonderful electrical machinery on exhibition and flooded the exhibit room with light, C. W. Kendall of the Utah Light & Power company set the Ogden Electrical Week show in motion mo-tion yesterday afternoon attbe Dee-Eccles Dee-Eccles building. The machinery room was well filled with people at the time and before the show closed at 11 o'clock, this number had passed the thousand mark. All of ihe displays seers, whose knowledge of the won-proved won-proved full of interest to the sight-ders sight-ders to be found in the electrical world of today, was vastly increased before they left the building. Equally interesting with the machinery, machin-ery, was the four-reel motion picture show, "The King of the Rail." This depicts the history of transportation in America, in a manner tnat holds close attention. Among the pictures are a series taken in Ogden and at the dugway in Ogden canyon, on Pioneer Day of this year and these were especially espec-ially interesting to the local people. There is no charge of admission to the show and it is given several times each afternoon and evening. Today, the club women of the city were in charge of the show and the program furnished consisted of vocal and Instrumental music and a demon- , stration of the application of electricity elec-tricity in every day household affairs. . Tomorrow will be children's day and the demonstration to be made will be specially for their benefit. Electricity Is used in the French aviation bureau to test the prospective prospec-tive airman's "nerves" to meet the hardships of aerial conflict. A very sensitive galvonometer discovers the quickness with which a candidate responds re-sponds to stimulation. It betrays the airman's stability and tells if his nerves are capable of meeting tests he Is sure to face in battle. Where airmen fail to meet a suitable average, aver-age, rejectment follows. Electrical Ears Protect Venice. Venice, frequently raided by Austrian Aus-trian airmen, is now provided with electrical ears. The observation station sta-tion has sensitive electrical michro-phones michro-phones which detect the noiso of motors mo-tors so far as 60 miles away. The moment an Austrian war-piano leaves Trieste, electric sirens give warning in ample time to prepare the antiaircraft anti-aircraft artillery for action in case the airman hoves in sight. it is interesting to note that during the siege of the British force in Kut-1 el-Amara, .two regiments of Jaegers, I who were besieged and cut off in the Frezela Valley, were in a fair way to starve or surrender until two aeroplanes aero-planes were pressed into service. These aeroplanes carried food sufficient suffi-cient to withstand the besieged until the troopers were relieved. In the Verdun fighting the story of a special correspondent of the New York Times on the retaking of the Maudromont quarries by the French, directs attention to the use of electric pocket lamps. A paragraph reads: "Under ground in the quarries the darkness was absolute save when bursting grenades showed brief visions vis-ions of carnage and terror. Friend often of-ten grappled friend, until the French adopted the plan of fastening an electric elec-tric pocket lamp to the tunic buttons. The light gave the Germans a better mark, but enabled the French to rally together and sweep the foe back in the final rush en masse." j Electric Light as a Soil Stimulator, j Intensive agriculture by means of electric light is seriously engaging attention at-tention where the yield of crops is curtailed, particularly in England, because be-cause the daylight is often obscure. Professor F. Keble, recently lecturing before the .Royal institution of Great Britain, stated that Germany, Italy and California were great seed growing grow-ing countries, mainly on account of their high intensity of sunlight. Experiments have demonstrated that the crop yield may bo increased materially by light from electric lamps. A Miss Dudgeon of Dumfries, Scotland, reports most satisfactory crops where the acreage was effected by electricity. The potato yield under un-der Miss Dudgeon's observation, per acre with electricity in 1912 was 1,20-1 pounds; in 1913, 1,156 pounds, in 1914, 2,576 pounds. The difference amounted amount-ed to 31 per cent in grain and 31 per cent in straw in favor of electricity. The Dumfries experiments are said to prove that under the influence of the electric discharge, soil Ingredients are more soUiable and more easy of assimilation and that formations of sugar aoa siarcn increase. A tremendous demand for timber suitable for trench works has brought about an electrical treatment of timber tim-ber which chemically changes the wood so that it withstands attacks of ( Continued on Page 9 ) lii SAMJRJCA'S&l fill H ELECTRICAL WEBKM III is5JD.ec 2. Jec9l2SJ : 1 DP1I OF I! WEEK IJi OF ELECTRICAL 3 1 DISPLAYS "; I: ( Continued from Page S ) I 1 fungi. A current is passed through I ' j the freshly cut timber and after a ! j few hours treatment the wood has the j js effect of ordinary drying for months i In free air. The moisture assists the .2 f flow of current, -which amounts to 1 j1 about 3 kw. to 6 kw. per cubic mejter. J M Electrical Progress in Germany De- J rt' spite Copper Shortage. (J s Germany's progress in applying elec- ? f! tricity to the exigencies of war has S i I hflon Knmowhat curtailed hoMncn r I ; the shortage In copper, -which is ea- j sential to all electrical -work. Zinc y. is being largely employed as a con- J ductor, but this nietal is far from ' m i satisfactory, one reason being that j I zinc cables cost from 100 per cent to 1 Ij 'j 150 per cent more than, cables of cop- -Jin per 1 'Ij j The difficulties within Germany, 4 j however, have not deterred the inven- tive Teutons from thoroughly utilizing 1 I! ; electrical service in their dug-outs on ) Ij the western front Trench works were J j captured in the Somme drive which I i contain all tire modern equipment of T IJi the up-to-date home electrical. in ;J II I one case, cooking and ironing was ac- f tually done underground by electric-'i electric-'i I ' iiy. 3 M . Electric' lights are strung practical- i ? .; ly along the entire warring front, j tvhere searchlights, cannons and oth- ; ' er weapons of war arc, operated bv 1 U j electricity. It has happened that, K -i where barbed wire works in front of j k . trenches were charged with electric P , current disastrous results followed ! U ' attempts to cross this electrified area. . j J j An interesting subsea magnet in- ! j vented by a Japanese scientist named ! Ij j Nakahara promises to be instrumen- ' I tal in locating many of the sunken 3 submarines, warships and transports a t which have gone down in compara- ij : tively shallow water. Tests of the I L ; magnet over the Japanese naval tar- i get grounds recently brought to the surface thousands o projectiles fired in practice. At the present price of scrap iron, the 600,000 shells which lie scattered at the bottom of the Japanese Jap-anese bays will be worth Borne S3,-000,000. S3,-000,000. Electric Magnet That Raises 40,000 Pounds. It is proposed to use the magnet in extracting the shell scraps from the crusted soil of the European battlefields. battle-fields. The value of this scrap iron alone would mount up Into a tremendous tremen-dous figure. A development of tho Nakahara magne promises to be powerful pow-erful enough to actually lift sunken vessels from the bottom of tho sea. Magnets are now in use on land which are able to elevate a weight of 40,-000 40,-000 pounds. In connection with the uses of electricity elec-tricity as a weapon of war, Rear Admiral Ad-miral Bradley A. Flake some time ago predicted giant land battleships which will be able to crash a way through four and five-story buildings, crush barb-wire entanglements like so many straws and smash trenches into , oust. In a modified form, this terrible instrument has appeared in the British Brit-ish "tanks," which did effective work on the French front. The success of the gigantic land and water dread-naughts dread-naughts of tho future, Rear Admiral Fiske points out, will be in the electro-magnet gun, as much as 90 feet in length, capablo of firing 75 shells a .minute and hurling each one of them a distance of 25 miles. Electrical Advances In the United States. While tremendous electrical advances ad-vances have been made in Europe progress in the Unitpd States has hardly been less marked. For a decade de-cade American genius has shown the electrical way. The European engineer engi-neer may have produced machines, inspired in-spired by war, which history will acclaim, ac-claim, y.et his Yankee prototypes are concluding another year of singularly successful progress in the electrifica-- tion of America, Briefly, electrical advances in Am- I erica, which may be characterized as the 1916 electrical achievements in peace, may be summed up as: An increase of 2,000,000 kilowatts ( of turbine rating in the capacities of ( electric light, heat and power plants. indicates an enormous growth in the ) public's use of electric service partic-ularly partic-ularly in moderate sized cities. Sin- gle units of 35,000 kws. have become lumerous while compound units are j being installed up to a nominal rating of 60,000 kws. Three times more electrical machinery machin-ery installed in steel mills during 1916 than during the seven years previous. Some of the reversing mill eloctric sets reach 15,000 H. P. maximum. The demand for steel has accentuated the advantages of the electric drive which will operate three-fifths of the industries indus-tries of America within another five years upon the basis of this year's progress. The success of the electrification of the Rocky Mountain section of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul railroad, rail-road, has set engineers preparing estimates esti-mates for electrifying other great trunk lines of America. It is reported that the Nickel Plate and Canadian Pacific are likely to be the next railways rail-ways to abandon the steam locomotive. locomo-tive. Other railroad electrifications are the Norfolk & Western &. Blue- I field, West Virginia; the Philadel- delphia-Paoli suburban line of tho Pennsylvania and the New York Cen- tral, Pennsylvania, Long Island and ' New Haven lines out of New York. Wonders of Battleship Electrification. In addition to the electric super-Ireadnoughts super-Ireadnoughts Tennessee, New Mexl-:o Mexl-:o and California, the year has wit- ( lessed a genuine policy of the United States navy to use the electric drive 1 ;or its fastest vessels. This method . )f propulsion has worked out so satis- "actorily that four new scout cruisers ncluded in this year's program, will 3e equipped with 'huge electric turbines tur-bines similar to those proposed for ;he two superdreadnaughts. Each lower plant will generate 28,000 H. P. |