| Show machines that are almost human by E C TAYLOR the electrical doctor suffer buffer ailments and ana Mb MACHINES breaks just as human beings do and the illness or breakdowns on the part of 0 machines has cost industry a tremendous sum each Y year e ar so science has produced tile the electrical doctor 11 this device diagnoses the ailment of a machine accurately and instantly and directs its cure the electrical doctor compute juggle figures or answer questions but its marvelous performance Is almost akin to the thinking and belll of the human brain and it does docs its task without the possibility of errors odthe of the human brain an electrical doctor Is stationed at nearly every electrical transformer la 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 to la coron aphone it Is a device so sensitive thata slight variation in sound will put it to work high voltage transformers make a humming sound all the time that Is when M hen nothing Is the matter with them when anything goes wrong the sound changes it was upon this change in sound that scientists based the working of the coron aphone only certain things can happen to a high voltage transformer and each of these things has its own distinctive sound the coron aphone pays no at attention to tile the peaceful india industrious sarious humming of the transformer when all Is going well but just as soon as the transformer becomes III or has anything the matter with 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 matter with the transformer trans fornier and where the trouble Is but it diagnoses tile the ailment and makes a complete and accurate report all in the time it takes to a signal the principle of the coron aphone la is that of starting action by sound the squawk of the ailing transformer Is recorded on the coron aphone and starts it operating the distinctive sound of the ailing part of the transformer notifies the electrical doctor just where tile the trouble it a and nd also what 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 besides the waste in energy there often were long delays in finding the sent seat of trouble and making repairs so that service could be resumed the electrical doctor is me our growth of necessity when electria electr ly ir service companies in the large cilles real realized led 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 for these extensions and the service would not warrant the building of complete power plants in ever every suburb so bo the electrical doctor or cor cor aphone on was devised As a result in all cities and densely populated sections of the country there are now comp complete lete electric substations sub stations where the electric curre current nt Is strengthened and distributed without the aid of a single human hand automatic m machinery 11 clil nery Is constantly at work guarded over oer by the electrical doctor cc 1931 western newspaper union |
