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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
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ll bearoused from his slumbers. A particular feature of the device is thefeeling of absolute security from fire itaffords hotel sleepers. In case of fire, theclerk, by pressing a button at the side ofthe dial-board automatically notifies thefire department; at the same time a redlight appears and a bell rings in everyroom, thus arousing all simultaneously.The ringing of the bell cannot be stoppedexcept at the office. Each room is alsoput in direct telephone connection forinformation. FIRST OIL DRIVEN DREAD-NAUGHT The Queen Elizabeth, now approach-ing the launching stage at Portsmouth,England, will be the first Dreadnaughtin the world to be exclusively propelledby the agency of liquid fuel. She willhave practically no coal bunker accomo-dation and all her furnaces will be de-signed for the use of oil only, which will bestored in a specially strengthened andsealed double bottom. The absence ofbunkers will give much additional spaceon board. POPULAR ELECTRICITY and the WORLDS ADVANCE 797
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INCREASING FREIGHT TRAFFIC ON INTERURBANS The illustration, taken at a small town in central Illinois, shows the increasingpopularity of electrical freight traffic, this particular case being the delivery of cornto an elevator on the Illinois Traction Systems right of way from which it is freightedby trolley to the nearest transfer point on a steam railroad, thus saving the farmers alot of time and wear and tear on their horses and wagons. ARTISTIC WAITING ROOMS The rapid development of interurbanpassenger traffic has required the installa-tion of numerous shelter sheds for thecomfort of those who live at some dis-tance from a main station. As the illus-tration shows, these need not be eye-

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  • bookyear:1912
  • bookdecade:1910
  • bookcentury:1900
  • booksubject:Electricity
  • bookpublisher:Chicago__Ill____Popular_Electricity_Pub__Co_
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  • bookleafnumber:810
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