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Title: Popular electricity magazine in plain English
Year: 1912 (1910s)
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Subjects: Electricity
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Popular Electricity Pub. Co.
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s. POPULAR ELECTRICITY and the WORLDS ADVANCE 917 ATTACKED BY THE LITTLE ICEDEVILS One cold winter morning a freightersteamed into one of the harbors of theGreat Lakes with a strange story.Aboard of her, besides her own comple-ment, was the entire crew of a boat whichhad sunk and in the sinking of the boat water that the waves were lapping thedeck. Sailormen cite this incident as an at-tack by the Little Ice Devils, while, intechnical parlance it would be termedfrozen spindrift or spoondrift. But thename given by the seafarers seems muchmore appropriate. Every winter shipscrawl into harbor under staggering loadsof frozen spray and num-l bers of them do not reachport at all. It is a slow,1 insidious death—a parasitewhich cannot be shaken off.Up in Lake Superiorj where the temperature oftendrops to 45 to 50 degrees) below zero, ice forms with-: startling rapidity. If thewind is blowing across the. „; j bow, ice forms only on that Sailormen Call this an Attackof The Little Ice Devils
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and rescuing of the menlay the strangeness of thestory. The ship which sunkhad sailed out of Duluthwith a cargo of packetfreight for Buffalo andhad encountered roughseas and a strong headwind. Each time a wavewould break over herbows the wind wouldcarry it up and over heruntil layer after layer of ice froze and soonformed a solid, cumbersome mass. Thefreighter sank lower and lower into thewater and finally the situation becameso dangerous that distress signals weresent out. A passing vessel in response to thefrantic tooting put on all steam to reachthe waiting boat—now so low in the side sometimes to such an extent that theboat will nearly capsize. After a long runit is no uncommon procedure to chop thewheelsman out of the pilot house. A new insulator for use in electricalwork is made by condensing phenol andformaldehyde. It is said to resembleJapanese lacquer. 918 POPULAR ELECTRICITY and the WORLDS ADVANCE THE METER In recent years the metric system hasmade rapid advances in the Un

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