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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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The Rails are There to Stay rest of the original fence. A mammothmaple is the fence post and the ends ofthe three rails extend through the middleof the tree, showing thai the fence wasput up some 75 years ago. 730 POPULAR ELECTRICITY and the WORLDS ADVANCE
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In the Upper View is Shown the Projectile Leaving the Cannon. The Lower Picture Shows the Breeches Buoy in Use SAVING LIVES WITH A CANNON Saving peoples lives by shooting atthem with a cannon sounds paradoxical,but that is the first step in the methodof rescue followed by life saving stationsall over the world. When a ship runs on a shoal near shore,life savers shoot an iron projectile at-tached to a coil of rope or fine steel cableover a cross arm of the vessel by meansof a small brass cannon. Those aboardthe ship haul in the rope to which is attached a heavier one. The heavy ropeis stoutly secured at both ends and, by abreeches buoy, the passengers are per-mitted to coast to the shore and to safety,one at a time. The first illustration shows the pro-jectile leaving the cannon. The samestring which discharged the cannon wasattached to the shutter release of thecamera; exposure 1/1200 second. Thesecond photograph illustrates, by aroughly constructed incline, the breechesbuoy in use. P

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  • bookyear:1912
  • bookdecade:1910
  • bookcentury:1900
  • booksubject:Electricity
  • bookpublisher:Chicago__Ill____Popular_Electricity_Pub__Co_
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  • bookleafnumber:743
  • bookcollection:smithsonian
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