Show JSLECTKICITY Progress That has Been Made In the last Ten or Twelve Years Siemens declared in 1SSO that electrio light acted like sun light on vegetation In 1SSO Siemens applied the olectrio light to the forcing of flowers in green houses Telephone wires laid between Liverpool and Manchester The electric furnace was built by Sie I mens in 1SSO and exhibited at work British Government in 18SO ordered 20 000 telephones for use in the postal service Edisons electric railway constructed at Menlo Park ia 1SSO Locomotive used o c > s Electricity tans first transported from I place to place in a portable form in IbSl An international congress of electricity I was hold in Paris In 1831 4 I A process for transmitting pictures to a distance wasinvented by Bidwell in 1881 In 18SS three leading systems of electric roadoverhead underground and storage In 1SS9 electric saws the electric cautery and light used in surgery and dentistry In 1890 260 electric railways 3000 cars 1733 miles carryinc 1200000 nassongors dally In 1890 electricity used in the execution of a criminal in New York In Ib91 the Bell telephone company bad 239633 miles of wire and 171454 subscribers subscrib-ers In 1S91 the Western Union received 5 23 03482658 the profits were 0605 58475 In 1891 the Western Union had 715501 miles of wire sent 59143343 messages In 1892 8700000000 are invested in this country in electric industries Over 700 patents issued for application of electricity to household uses to 1S93 In 1892 there are in this country 335 electric elec-tric roads 3980 miles of hue In ten years over 1700 patents Issued for application of electricity to industry Over 14000 patents have been issued by the United States for application of electricity elec-tricity Over 600 patents issued for the use of electricity medicine and surgery |