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Identifier: worldscolumbiane02whit (find matches)
Title: The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: White, Trumbull, 1868-1941 Igleheart, William, (from old catalog) joint author
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: Philadelphia and St. Louis, P.W. Ziegler & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ere itcreated a veritable sensation. It has been in constant use since,and Is still capable of good service. The next block shows the apparatus used for isolated stations,such as are found In large hotels and office buildings. Some veryfine designs for utilizing the usually very cramped space allowed Insuch buildings are shown. The adjoiningblock shows theapplication of elec-tricity to mining,and exemplifieshow electricity canreplace in everyway the use ofsteam or com-pressed air, utiliz-ing, by the way,what has been asource of thegreatest trouble tomine owners, andthat is the waterfound In mines.Here Is shown thePelton waterwheel operatinga dynamo whichproduced a cur-rent of three hun-dred volts. This Is transformed to a voltaofe of 6,000, and at themine is reduced again to whatever voltage is necessary for saleuse. Mining pumps for draining mines, drills, mining railways, andin fact all apparatus used In modern mining practice Is shown in operation and all operated by electricity.ai
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1,500 HORSE-POWER DYNAMO. Exhibit of General Electric Company 322 EJLECTRICITY. / In the centre of the building the tower of light is intended as/ the glorification of the Edison lamp and the Edison system ofincandescent lighting. It was designed by Luther Stieringer forthe General Electric Company, and the plans were approved by Mr*Edison. The tower is 82 feethigh and arises from a circularpavilion 32 feet in diameter.The glass exhibit in this pavilionis made by the Phoenix GlassCompany, of Pittsburg, and isgrouped in the space betweenthe base of the column, which ispolygonal and faced with mir-rors, and the circular row of col-umns supporting the roof of thepavilion. Above the pavilion isa graceful cylindrical shaft ofstaff, endinof in an elaboratelyt/ornamented gilded capital. Thesurface of the shaft is relieved bydark lines of moulding, arrangedin geometrical designs, as shownin the illustration, with little sixcandle-power lamps of differentcolors inserted at frequent andregular

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