| Show A new motor the world is ready for a new motor is actually act nally expect ine and waiting for it what it will be no man can tell but just jost now t destined dis looks as though electricity was destined tined to supplant steam in many of the mechanical processes or at least to be used in the distribution and application of power furnished by steam generated sene rated in great quantities and economically at central points or by water fails or the tides of the sea electric motors have already been so perfected as to demonstrate not only the ease with which the power prod produced aced by a dynamo may be distributed but its adaptability to almost every purpose for which power is required nearly thirty street rail ways are already operated by electric motors of various kinds and successful ex experiments er 1 ments are making here and else elsewhere wee with electric locomotives in several manufacturing centers electric power is supplied for driving printing presses and other machine everywhere it has baa been popular the principal objection being its cost and even that obstacle to its general use will no doubt eventually be overcome the steam engi engineta eng inela nein its if infancy was a crude machine wasting all but a very small portion of the power generated but a corliss invented a cutoff cut ut off and other ingenious men de devised improvements in boll boilers erts aud and the means of utilizing fuel and have the perfected steam engine of today to day so too when the electric lamp was first successfully lighted the cost co st of supplying it with an electric current curren was so great thaties popular use 4 W was as said to be out of the question but improve improvements ments were made in dynamos and economies in operating them were introduced until electric lamps today compete successfully with gas lights not only in the quality of the illumination they give but also in the 1 cost at which they are farni furnished shed the electric motor e w which la is already admitted to possess many advantages over the direct use of steam power will next be made as cheap as the latter but whether it lato la to be the motor of the abe future or not time alone can tell |
