Show improvements electricity Is a very important and wietel actor facter to in war as well as in peace tat but its ita mission in either case has b colm comparison Paxison but fairly be wun it Is now proposed to have an board to which the govern meent MR can submit important matters by electrical means relating to offensive afif defensive measures A suggestion 0 tafts recently been made to the insel htwe of electrical engineers that such bureau be organized to be made up I 1 froba vr the colleges universities and e electrical ariew societies of the country it bifid Wi fid of course be subordinate to the attar lt tar electrical staff of the govern icat att but would at the same time be a able an efficient ally y A writer in ft eastorn eastern paper declares that f I 1 I 1 an orn organization would W act be the brains f electrical war prosecution in con to the hands which would fie represented resented ren e heated by those in active ser nee oed 61 the frant while america has aie dad any other country in the r of electrical war apall incys 16 it the a whole field is yet in a teny wart aate many apparently L ne hae yet problems to lems be e put to 4 practical test and may problems have ap to solved saved before much electrical ma ott on which great hopes are now willbe will e reduced to the plane or of biral bad st dard practice the wn ot anhof of these problems by am st of th ane experience pained in the lait 01 bould dAth advantage F in a ty by the proposed bureau also receive pass upon an ani la 1 to the ahe adap any new eions for increasing efficiency of the army or navy and promoting th effectiveness ti veness of measures tor the defense ot the country another authority on the same aade subject declares that in nearly all marine electric installations sufficient consideration is not given to the question of providing adequate spare or duplicate plant every boat beat that is used for passenger traffic except perhaps the very small ones should be fitted with at least two sets of plant by this is meant not absolutely duplicate plant in all cases but a safe rule is to have the additional set capable of running about two thirds of the entire number of lamps the ordinary plant will thus be equal to all tha th work except in case of accident when the other plant will come in before a great length of time has passed it is expected that a large increase in the number of electric motors used on board ship will be made ind and it seems quite probable that electric wires will be made to take the place of steam pipes which do so much in the way of encumbering derks decks and obstructing ting movements there are a thou thousand gand and one items pertaining to mechanism in all its forms on sea and land that can be simplified and made more useful at the same time b by such substitution as that herein suggested suggested this is coming coining along piecemeal but falth gratifying rapidity showing that the mote more that is known regarding the utility and power ot of o f the subtle fluid the more there is to be known after awhile there will be no clumsy ponderous motors comparatively speaking they will bp be supplanted by mechanism less bulky but more powerful and easier to manage while the saving in fuel alone would be a matter of sufficient consequence to cause things to be pushed hard and fast in that direction |