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THE GEXERAL ELECTRIC EXHIBIT. The great diversity of electrical application at the Worlds Fairis exemplified by the exhibit of the General Electric Co., not onlyin its large booth in the Electricity Building, but in the large num-ber of applications of its apparatus to various purposes throughoutthe Exposition grounds. One of the most interesting features ofthis exhibit is the Curtis steam turbine, which is of 3.000 h. p.

it is a reproduction of the equipment furnished forthe cars of the InterboroUKh Rapid Transit Co. On the umierside of the suspended floor franiin); of a car. are shown all of ihi-electrical ami air brake equipments, the wiring being of Hreproof constru-tlng feature of the General Electric exhibit Is a 3.000-h. p. Curtis steam turbine directly connected to a three phase.Ii.600 volt. 25-cycle generator. This Is the first of these units tobe built with the condenser In the base. Another conspicuous feature of the exhibit Is a model of a 10,-000-h. p. generator similar to those furnished for the new Cana-dian Falls power houie of the Niagara Falls Power Co. This-

GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. capacity, direct connected to a three-phase, 6,600-volt, 25-cyclegenerator. This is the first of these units to be built with the condenser in the base of the machine. Two of the four generators inthe Exposition companys power plant were furnished by the Gen-eral Electric Co. These give 6,600 volts, 25 cycles, at 83^^; r. p. m.,and are of 2,000 kw. capacity. This company also furnished theentire car equipment for the Intramural Railway, consisting of 57four-motor equipments. Of these equipments St use G. E. No. 70motors with the Sprague-Gcneral Electric multiple unit control, andsix of the cars are equipped with G. E. No. 67 motors with K-6controllers. The incandescent lamps used by the Exposition were all furnishedby the (ieneral Electric Co. and represent the largest incandescentlamp order ever placed. The number of lamps furnished exceeds500,000, and of these over 80,000 arc colored lamps for use aboutthe Cascades. For lighting the outlying parts of the grounds

of wblrh romprlm U. B. No. 70 motors with the Sprague-GeneralElectric multiple unit control, and )l of the cars are equipped withO. E. No. C7 motors with K-t! controllers. The incandescent lamps used by the Exposition were furnishedhy the General Electric Co. There are more than GOU.OOo lamps,of which more than 811,000 are colored lamps for use about theCasiades. This represents the largest Incandescent lamp orderever placed. The G. E. series alternating street system is used forlighting the outlying parts of the grounds, the exterior of thebuildings and the Pike. 1.800 lamps of 7i... ampere capacity beingrequired for this service. The General Ele<trlc Co. also fur-nished the searchlights used by the Exposition company, as wellas the searchlight built for the Lewis Publishing Co., and whichthrows a ray 80 In. In diameter, it being the most powerful search-light ever built. General Electric oil-cooled and water-anu-alr-cooled tiansform-ers are used In all the sub-stations of the exh