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Identifier: popularelectric619131chic (find matches)
Title: Popular electricity magazine in plain English
Year: 1912 (1910s)
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Subjects: Electricity
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Popular Electricity Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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laid down by the British drill book,using the English words of commandwith surprising accuracy of pronuncia-tion. Armed with sticks for rifles, andheaded by a battered old side-drum, astill more battered infantry bugle and anequally decayed pair of cymbals, a bandof some 50 of these naked youngsterswill march swaggeringly and in perfecttime through the village until they reachan open space outside, where their nakedcaptain proceeds to put them throughthe English army company drill. W. Robert Poran. The economy of electricity is of de-cided importance. Electricity can beturned on and turned off, and wasteavoided instantly. Electric energy in theform of light, heat or power can be moredefinitely utilized than any other form. POPULAR ELECTRICITY and the WORLDS ADVANCE 541 AH BALL NEWARK 1 00 I 0( ; i 2 S T001EY i-1 i C-; MErERS i.ililffM i i •> SWMIN4 illiMTO i ! ?.- GiGNIER I SMITH F ATCHISON E! COLLINS R H E BB ( UMPIRE) SO i 1 BBENN M 7 PLAYER TORONTO J OO 1 0 000 0 1 SHAW III 1
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Electrical Score Board and THE LATEST BASE-BALL SCORE BOARD A new kind of scoreboard, which is theverynext thing to the actualgame itself, has got theNew York fans going. Itis ten feet high, with abright green field and redpitchers box and red baselines. Suspended on invis-ible wires is a gleamingwhite ball, a real ball, infact, which by a cunningmechanical arrangementof wires, flies to deep cen-ter or wherever the batterhappens to send it. Thisball, showing every action,is the distinctive featureof the new board. ^o make the game seemall the more realistic, theman behind the board canmake the ball curve for anout and then for an in-shoot. If a runner is onfirst base he can be madeto flit back and forth offthe base, while the ballmoves hesitatingly to andfro in the pitchers box,as the pitcher considerstrying to catch the would-be base stealer off first base. Zip! The white ball flashesto first. Safe! And on thenext ball the man goesdown to second. Its along throw from home tosecond, b

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  • bookyear:1912
  • bookdecade:1910
  • bookcentury:1900
  • booksubject:Electricity
  • bookpublisher:Chicago__Ill____Popular_Electricity_Pub__Co_
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  • bookleafnumber:554
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