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Show NEW ELECTRICAL DEVICE. The winning horse hereafter will put r his nose under the wire to electricity Instead of to a stop watch. The human hu-man element enters largely into the stop watch method, seeing that the timekeepers are required to estimate the exact moment of the start and finish, fin-ish, and, moreover, stop watches in general will only register to one-flfth of a second, while In an electric chronometer chro-nometer the personal factor is eliminated eliminat-ed and the result Is automatically recorded re-corded upon a band of paper which the apparatus unrolls with an accuracy of a hundredth part of a second. The apparatus Is set up at each end of the line and connected by an insulated insu-lated wire which Is laid along the side of the route. A wire Is stretched across the track at the point where the horses start. The wire Is connected by a suitable suit-able lever with a contact which Is mounted inside the apparatus. As the horse passes over the wire the contact Is established, and this movement is registered automatically by the action of an electro magnet upon a band of paper which is unrolled in the chronometer. chrono-meter. When the horse arrives at the finishing fin-ishing mark it passes over a second wire which' Is stretched across the route. A second current Impulse Is thus sent over the line into the chronometer box and the exact time of finish is registered.. reg-istered.. The strip of paper Is unrolled during the passage of the horse by a modified form of Morse register which feeds out the paper at a practically uniform uni-form speed. The moment of starting and finishing is recorded by a needle pjlnt which makes a dot upon the band, so that by taking the distance between the dots the time is obtained. Each one-flfth second is registered upon the board by a second needle point, which the chronometer chro-nometer operates by means of an electro elec-tro magnet, so that it is only necessary to count the number of spaces and fractions. Chicago Tribune. |