With respect to the transmission of power electrically, I
won't venture to touch upon that; but will content myself by reminding
you that while Sir William Armstrong did say that there were
comparatively small streams which could be utilized, he did not inform
you of that which he himself had done in this direction; let me say
that Sir William Armstrong thus utilized a fall of water, situated
about a mile from his house, to work a turbine, which drives a dynamo
machine, generating electricity, for the illumination of the house.
When I was last at Crag Side, that illumination was being effected by
the arc light, but since then, as Sir William Armstrong has been good
enough to write to me, he has replaced the arc light by the
incandescent lamp (a form of electrical lighting far more applicable
than the arc light to domestic purposes), and with the greatest
possible success. Thus, in Sir William Armstrong's own case, a small
stream is made to afford light in a dwelling a mile away. Certainly
nothing could have seemed more improbable fifty years ago than that
the light of a house should be derived from a fall of water without
the employment of any kind or description of fuel.
The next subject upon which I propose to touch is that of
THE MANUFACTURE OF IRON AND STEEL.
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