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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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tell,When the oft-phoned query, Whats a watt? smote the ear of the angry Bell. Wherefore, he muttered and passed the buck, till Morse, in his intellects might, Imprisoned the Juice to race the wires and rival the speed of light;And the clicking keys told the worlds tale in chattering dash and dot —When the Ham ticked off to his startledChief ■—■ Excuse me, but whats awatt? Now if we could get the N E L A to meet with the EDSAnd concentrate, with their gathered lore, to answer this ancient guess;And if they could counsel with Thomas A, (for the bunch of them know a lot)By the favor of Heaven they might replyto the why of this whats a watt?—J. A. Harney. We have learned to bottle the sunshine up in the Tungstens brilliant glow,And the work of the world is done to-day to the throb of the Dynamo;The X-ray penetrates things opaque and the Wireless sweeps the seas,But the Captains shudder, as Whats a watt? is helixcd across the breeze. 794 POPULAR ELECTRICITY andthe WORLDS ADVANCE
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THE CEMENT ANIMALS OF HAGENBECK The name of Karl Hagenbeck is knownto every schoolboy the world over andprobably no other man ever handled orowned more animals and birds than he.He was always in touch with trappers andhunters of every clime. Just put Hag-enbeck on the envelope and the letterwill 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 attr

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