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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar91912newy (find matches)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ests of safety, then, it is not impossible that the electric roof signs at least must be dispensed with. Since the roof is destined to become as important as the ground floor, we may ex- pect to find in the hotel of the future, clerks and bell- boys posted on the top floor ready to attend to the immediate wants of tour- ists who have just arrived by aeroplane. On the roof itself will be found the usual retinue of liveried servants. Porters in the uniforms of rear-admirals will assist aero- plane arrivals in alighting. View of an aerodrome taken from a dirigible balloon eye in the air will not be spared the announcement that the Aerial taxicabs will circle like vultures over the hotel, wait- Isabel Monoplane is the fastest in the world or that the ing for a doorman to signal one of them to alight and pick aerial garage of Hutchins lies six miles to the north, or up a departing guest. that Pinkman makes the only trustworthy aeroplane motor. The aerial garages of the future will not be unlike pres- Roof signs may indeed be absolutely indispensable in order ent automobile garages. They will be taller, perhaps, and to guide the aviator. Hovering over a sea of red tin roofs even more generously proportioned; for a spread of wing how can he tell which is his? Some system of identification of forty feet is by no means unusual in a flying machine, is obviously required. Even streets must be indicated. At Elevators of corresponding size will convey the machines night time electric lights of contrasting colors must be in- to and from the roof. The platforms of the elevators will stalled to guide the man in the air to his garage. It may have to be painted some distinctive color, so that those in be doubted whether the glare of our present towering the air may know what part of the roof is stable and what electric signs will be tolerated. A locomotive engineer could part is more like the trap-door of a stage, hardly guide his train in safety if he were confused by The giant dirigible of the future, comparable in size with thousands of electric bulbs, flashing rythmically as they a Lusitania, will make great demands upon the ingenuity proclaim the virtues of a new mineral water. In the inter- (Continued on page 336)
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— j Only from the "down-view" can one gain an adequate idea of a city's plan

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