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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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nts and food dealers were among the exhibitors. In connection with the exposition there was held a three-day conference on safety and sanitation which closed with a banquet at the Waldorf-Astoria and the presentation of awards to those organizations which had done most during the year toward the promotion of safety. The Scientific American medal for the most efficient safety device was awarded to the Welin Marine Equipment Company for its lifeboat and davit improvements. Pulmotor Exhibit been brought to a realization that there is no compensation for lost limbs and lost lives; hence the country - wide movement that is putting safety first. Some idea of the extent to which industry is going in the conservation of human life was seen last December when the first International Exposition of Sanitation and Safety was held at the Grand Central Palace in New York. Street railroads and transcontinental carriers, electric and gas companies, the Army, the Navy and the governments Public Health Service, manufacturers in
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A Model Field Hospital of the U. S. Army Electric Emergency Truck Used by a Gas Company. Among Other Equipment this Carries a Pulmotor for Cases of Gas Poisoning 1176 POPULAR ELECTRICITY and the WORLDS ADVANCE 11; The Travelers Insurance Medal was awarded to the New York Telephone Company, signifying that, as an employer, the telephone company had done more than any other to protect the lives of its workmen. In this connection a special award was made to the General Electric Company of Berlin. The Louis Livingston Seaman Medal for progress in the promulgation of hygiene was awarded to the United States Steel Corporation. The General Electric Company received the Ratheneau medal for the best device for safeguarding life and health, and the Southern Pacific Railroad received the E. H. Harriman Memorial Medal as indicating its success in the protection of the lives of employees and the public. The various sessions of the conferencewere devoted to discussions of Industrial Accidents, Accident Prevention

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