. The Street railway journal . showing the scientific practicability ofsubmarine telegraphy that brought the project of laying a trans-atlantic cable to a commercial stage; and it was his inventionof the mirror galvanometer and the syphon recorder thatplaced the operation of submarine lines on a parity with landlines with respect to practical operation. Lord Kelvin also waschairman of the international committee of engineers appointedto consider the subject of electrical development at NiagaraFalls in connection with the Cataract Power Companys to catalogue in part other invention
. The Street railway journal . showing the scientific practicability ofsubmarine telegraphy that brought the project of laying a trans-atlantic cable to a commercial stage; and it was his inventionof the mirror galvanometer and the syphon recorder thatplaced the operation of submarine lines on a parity with landlines with respect to practical operation. Lord Kelvin also waschairman of the international committee of engineers appointedto consider the subject of electrical development at NiagaraFalls in connection with the Cataract Power Companys to catalogue in part other inventions, we have from himbesides laboratory instruments for the absolute measurementof electrical quantities, the line of instruments of laboratoryaccuracy for industrial use; the ships binnacle, which in a shorttime replaced all other forms of the mariners compass on theships of the world; the types of sounding apparatus for theassistance of navigation near shore and for sounding the greaterdepths of the ocean, and the LORD KELVIN. Street Railway Journal NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1907. No. 26 Vol. XXX. Published Every Saturday by the McGraw Publishing Company James H. McGraw, Pres. Curtis E. Whittlesey, Sec. & Treas. Main Office:NEW YORK, 239 West Thirty-ninth Street. Branch Offices:Chicago: Old Colony Building. Philadelphia: Real Estate Trust : Schofield Building. San Francisco: Atlas Building. London: Hastings House, Norfolk St., Strand. Cable Address, Stryjourn, New York; Stryjourn, London—LiebersCode used. Copyright, 1907, McGraw Publishing Company. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION In the United States, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Philippines, Cuba, Mexicoand the Canal Zone: Street Railway Journal (52 issues) $ per annum Single copies 10 cents Combination Rate, with Electric Railway Directory and Buyers Manual (3 issues—Feb., Aug. and Nov.) $ per annum Both of the above, in connection with American StreetRailway Investments (The Red Book—Publis
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