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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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packed in ice in stoutwooden tubs. In this waysatisfactory shipments aremade as far west as Denver. One million pounds oihas been spun intowire for the extension anddevelopmenl of the tele-phone system in Texas dur-ing tgr^. Between 300and500 acres o\ forest is beingstripped o\ its straighteslrees to make thepoles oi this special order. 44 POPULAR ELECTRICITY MAGAZINE A Trolley Ambulance The trolley ambulance shown in theillustration is the first of its kind everbuilt and was designed and made by awell known firm of car builders in Phila-delphia for a tramway company in Bahia,Brazil. The car is designed for the trans-portation of patients to and from the Air is admitted through a small ven-tilating hole placed underneath each bed. The nurses rooms, one of which ad-joins each hospital compartment, arefurnished with metal medicine chests andrevolving chairs and have a small dooropening into the room holding the beds. Every precaution has been taken toprevent infection on the part of the
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TROLLEY AMBULANCE WITH SEPARATE HOSPITAL COMPARTMENTS outlying hospitals about this city thatcannot be easily reached by other means. There are five divisions, including firstthe nurses rooms, adjoining which maybe seen the two compartments for thepatients. In the center of the car a smallarea has been converted into a fumi-gation room. This room is two feetlljHs inches long and extends the fullwidth of the car, i. e. eight feet, as dothe other compartments. The disinfectingroom is hermetically sealed from otherportions of the car with the exceptionof a small hole in each transverse wall,through which the fumigation processtakes place. The hospital compartments accommo-date two iron beds each, which areequipped with rubber tired rollers,springs and the regular mattresses. Thesebeds can be pulled out upon anextension of the car floor formed bythe lowering of one side of the car.When the compartments are closed lightis secured through two double paneledwire glass windows, one over each

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