. The town of Shrewsbury, its location, advantages and attractions as a place of residence and for business . but with a railroad a heavier load can be moved quicker 13 ELECTRIC POWER. What is electricity ? This is what no fellah can find nearest that any one ever came to it, was the college student whohadnt learned his lesson, and when asked this question, said hedid know, but had forgotten it. Unfortunately his memoryhas since failed. We class ourselves with the know-nothings on this point, but we propose to try the simplest first—the StorageBattery—but in doing this we
. The town of Shrewsbury, its location, advantages and attractions as a place of residence and for business . but with a railroad a heavier load can be moved quicker 13 ELECTRIC POWER. What is electricity ? This is what no fellah can find nearest that any one ever came to it, was the college student whohadnt learned his lesson, and when asked this question, said hedid know, but had forgotten it. Unfortunately his memoryhas since failed. We class ourselves with the know-nothings on this point, but we propose to try the simplest first—the StorageBattery—but in doing this we take no sides with any of the con-tending forces in the mighty struggle that is going on for dont know, but we think the storage battery has a great futurebefore it, and if this proves to be true, all who have storage bat-tery patents will bring out their systems. We have studied some-what relating to the contest between stationary power andlocomotives just sixty years ago, in England, on the Liverpooland Manchester railway, when George Stephenson came outtriumphant, and if we can aid in a similar contest regardingelectric power, we are strongly disposed
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