Show Na machines chines that are lie I 1 almost human JR by y E C TAYLOR the electrical doctor MACHINES M suffer stiffer ailments and an breaks just as 03 tinman human beings do and the illness or breakdowns breakdown break doNN Ds on the part 0 of machines has cost coat industry a tremendous sum each year so science has produced the electrical doctor tills this device diagnoses the ailment of a machine accurately and instantly and ill dl recta its cure the electrical doctor compute juggle figures or answer questions but its ita marvelous per firmance for mance Is almost akin to the thinking and skill of the ibe human brain und find it does its task without tile possibility of errors of the buman brain an electrical doctor Is stationed at nearly every electrical transformer in the country scores of other machines are to be guarded by these electrical doctors and similar devices and science has scored another triumph of saving time and money the electrical doctors name Is coron aphone it Is a device so sensitive that a slight variation in sound bound will put it to work high voltage transformers make a humming sound all the time limp that Is when nothing Is the mutter matter with them when anything goes wrong the sound changes it vas as upon this change in sound that scientists based the working of the corona phone only certain things can happen to a high voltage transformer and each of these things has its own distinctive sound tile the coron aphone pays no litten atten tion to the peaceful humming of the transformer when all Is going well but lust just as soon as tie the transformer becomes tit or has 1119 11 19 anything anit liing the matter with fill it it lets out a squawk and the electrical doctor gets on the job the coron aphone instantly notifies headquarters it tells not only what Is the alie matter with the transformer and where the trouble la is but it diagnoses the alli ailment nent and makes a complete and accurate re port all in the time it I 1 takes to flash a signal the principle of the coron aphone Is that of starting action by sound the squawk of the filling ailing transformer Is recorded on the corona phone and starts it operating the distinctive sound of the ailing n ieng part of the transformer notifies ni filles the electrical doctor just where here the tha trouble Is and also what tile the trouble Is an automatic flash to headquarters promptly brings the repairmen and the threatened breakdown in electric service Is averted electric service companies formerly had to employ hundreds of men to hunt down trouble when transformers and power lines got out of order I 1 besides the tha waste in energy there often were long delays in finding the seat of trouble and making repairs so that flint service e could be resumed the electrical doctor Is the outgrowth of necessity when electric service companies in the large cities realized the necessity of supplying electric current to outlying suburbs and territory many miles away from the central power plants they put their problem before scientists large forces of men could not be employed to care tor for these exten eiten boons and the service would not warrant the building of complete power plants in every suburb so tile the electrical doctor or cor on aphone was devised dev ased As a result in all cities and densely populated sections of tile the country there are now complete electric eions where the electric current Is strengthened and distributed without the aid of a single human h hand s n d A automatic u t 0 m a t i c m machinery a c li n e r y 1 Is s c con 0 ro scantly t a n t 1 y a at t w work 0 r k gu guarded a r d ed over by the electric doctor a E 1931 western newspaper union I 1 |