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Show breaks the bell rings continuously, Thus there is ample warning to prepare pre-pare additional generators for service serv-ice when abnormal demands for current cur-rent are felt. Storm Indicator. When a sudden storm comes up in the summer and the clouds are black we naturally turn on all the electric lights. Sometimes this happens so suddenly that the companies which supply the electric current are taken unawares with only the normal daytime day-time current that is entirely inadequate inade-quate to meet a general demand. Hence electric companies have to keep a man with a keen weather eye constantly "on the job." One of the largest concerns in New York recently recent-ly installed a storm detector similar to a wireless telegraph receiving apparatus, ap-paratus, which is affected by neighboring neigh-boring thunderstorms and announces their presence by ringing a bell. The nearer the storm the more frequently frequent-ly does the bell ring, and within an hour to a half hour before the storm |