Show one of the features of the coming eleo trica exhibition at frankfort on fhe main will be the transmission of power on a scale hitherto neyr attempted when it was announced borne months ago that it was proposed to transmit horse power from on the to frankfort a distance af pf pore than one hundred miles the statement was received with smiles of incredulity but now it beems quite probable that not only will the experiment be tried but that it will succeed in spite of the engineering gi difficulties that have to be surmounted the government has been asked to supply line for the purpose and on the system used the expense will not necessarily be at all bevere for the use of very high potential alternating currents is the feature of the scheme as at present planned the alternating generator will supply a step up transformer that in turn will transmit its secondary current at ai enormously high potential along the line to be re transformed by a step down transformer at frankfort to a potential practicable for an alternating motor A series of experiments carried out recently at Oer likon involve the use of pressures as high as volts on the line at such a potential the current transmitted becomes so small that the line is a relatively small factor in the losses incurred even though it be of the extreme length proposed nothing can better illustrate the characteristic advantages of the alternating system than this beautiful process of generating and utilizing currents at a moderate potential and transmitting them from station to station at a pressure so enormous thai the losses in transit become insignificant world borne mends who attended the fanneral of a young lady in london had a novel experience tho other day Afew before the young lady had sung nearer my god to thea into a phonograph and after the fanneral ceremony the hymn reproduced little wallace chapman a four old kansas city boy has at wonderful memory he recently repeated verbatim a nineteen stanza poem after hear atik if read alond three |