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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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etterwill reach him, said an associate whenasked for his address. His recent death on his estate nearStillingen, Germany, brings before thepublic the immense animal traffic whichhe had developed since the age of 20when the death of his father left a begin-ning in a unique business. He was tall and thin and wore a beardthat caused him- to be likened to Lincolnin appearance. He was a lover of wild animals and in his later life establishedHagenbeck Park, where hundreds of hisanimals were kept for public observationand where, not satisfied with living crea-tures, he had made of cement the forms ofprehistoric beasts, the pictures of someof which are here shown. Every yearadditions were made to the Parks attrac-tions until its exhibit of birds andanimals are among the most completein existence. LONGEST SUBMARINE TELE-PHONE CABLE A submarine telephone cable 35 mileslong is worth noting. Such a one—hold-ing the record for length—has just been POPULAR ELECTRICITY and the WORLDS ADVANCE 795
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(1) Group of cement reproductions of prehistoric creatures inHagenbecks Park, Hamburg, Germany. (2) Figure of 66 foot longDiplodocus recently deposed by the Gigantosaurus Afr^canus as thelargest terrestrial animal of the past. (3) Triceratophs with a collar ofspikes and a three horned head. (4) Long necked sea serpent, thePlesiosaurus Victor, half fish, half mammal. (5) Tortoise race in thePark—the tortoise hurry forward to get the lettuce which their childriders hold in front of them on a stick. (6) Hagenbeck and the Ger-man Emperor. (7) Iguanodon, a plant eating animal with dagger likethumbs. (8) Flesh eating dinosaur 48 feet long. (9) Prehistorictortoise. (10) A giant bat of prehistoric times whose life movementswould, could they have been filmed, make an interesting nature study.(11) Stegosaurus, a spike tailed creature having spikes on its tailand a row of veritable i Its length is 25 feet. plate in the shape of spines down its back. laid between Vancouver and VancouverIsland i

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