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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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n of 1900. Thespace behind the globe was set out with comfortable chairs for thebenefit of visitors. Here also was set up a model plant toshow the practical working of the Thomson car recordingmeter, consisting of a G. E. 800 motor, an R-11 con-controller and the necessary resistances, the car meter, fuseand a form M circuit breaker. The load was applied to the motor bymeans of a brake working on a pulley keyed to the armature shaft.Behind this plant was an instrument board, on which were exhib-ited the latest types of astatic volt and ampere meters, inclinedcoil switchboard and portable instruments, motor vehicle meter,and edgewise ammeter, all grouped around a type M station re-cording wattmeter reading to 8000 amps. On an easel a framedsign showed the railroads in the vicinity of Boston employingGeneral Electric apparatus and the details of their equipment.Above the instrument board hung another illuminated sign—thecomplement of the globe—setting forth the railway record of the
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EXHIBIT OF THE GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. set lamps, thirty to forty tiers high from the surface. The in-stallations included those for street car propulsion, for mill ormine work, or for lighting purposes. No better idea of the ex-tent to which American ideas on matters electrical have permeatedthroughout the whole earth could possibly be gathered than froma glance at this globe, and the mind reverted to the names ofEdison, Thomson, Vandepoele, Sprague, Brush and others whosepractical genius made this world-wide use of electricity possible.Each country was indicated by its national flag, and the Stars andStripes fluttered not only over the United States, but also overCuba, Porto Rico and the Sandwich and Philippine Islands. The interior of the globe was richly upholstered, the decorativecolor scheme being worked out in pink and green. The air waskept cool by revolving electric fans, and the lighting of the in-terior was all indirect. An aurora borealis effect was secured overthe north pole

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