A STEED YET UNTAMED

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 2, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 27.

A STEED YET UNTAMED.

MR. GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE, president of the Westinghouse Manufacturing Company, does not believe that electricity will make travel safer. He makes these points: Electrical energy enough to run a heavy train will melt quite a large bar of iron, or start a dangerous fire if anything goes wrong. If two electrically fitted cars should collide, the results would be terrible; for in that case fire would be almost unavoidable, unless the cars were made of steel, as he thinks they may well be. By so much as electricity is more potent than steam, it is more dangerous. He affirms that the tremendous current needed in moving through trains, in an accident would play such havoc with life and property as to make the accidents of the present day seem almost insignificant. He is the most wonderful adapter and inventor in this country, as the history of his own inventions and their subsequent modifications shows. He has well said that further experiments should be very carefully made in controlling our railways.—Christian Advocate.