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Show ELECTRICAL In Manchuria there are thirteen telephone tel-ephone exchanges. Uruguay has decided to take over telephones as a state monopoly. Paris is now in direct telephone communication with Madrid, 1,000 miles. A new electric soldering iron Is stationary, sta-tionary, articles to be soldered being held against it The automatic telephone service Is a success in Havana, where there are 7,000 subscribers. Peking, the only capital In the wide world without a street car system, soon is to have an electric line. Through telephone service between New York and Los Angeles will probably prob-ably be established by next November. Berlin employs more than 100 storage stor-age battery driven electrical machines literaJly to scrub its well-kept streets. Utilizing a current from a magneto or batteries, an Inventor hag brought out an electrically heated steering wheel for automobiles. A power-driven rotary hoof parer to take the place of the horseshoer'a tongs, knife and rasp has been Invented In-vented by a Nevada man. It is thought that electric lights will ultimately take the Dlacn nf n others in lighthouses. The difficulties in the way are gradually overcome. On an automobile wireless outfit built for the Austrian army the motor used to propel the car may also be utilized to drive the electric generator. A storage battery illuminated electric elec-tric sign has been invented to be worn on the arm of a person selling refreshments in theaters and other public places. Primarily for the use of physicians, a dynamo transformer has been Invented In-vented in France which will turn out currents of various tensions and strengths at the came time if de-sired. |