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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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ue of Henry IV, the work pre-sented no difficulty, as the necessarytrenches could be made by ordinary meansof excavation; beyond that point, as faras the right bank, a distance of nearly 400feet, it was necessary to adopt other method of operation than would anydescription. Altogether 3,610 electric vehicles areregistered in the State of Ohio. Of thisnumber, Cleveland leads off with 1,838,and other cities have the following:Columbus, 459; Toledo, 367; Cincinnati,238; Youngstown, 116, and Akron, 99.The electric vehicles make up approxi-mately six per cent of the total numberof automobiles in the State. POPULAR ELECTRICITY and the WORLDS ADVANCE 925 AERIAL LINER Sheltered cabins in aeroplanes arebound to come sooner or later, and aRussian inventor is the first to succeed inthis field. The Sykorsky Grand is the THE LIGHT OF CRYSTALS Not all diamonds shine in the dark afterexposure to sunlight or electric light, butsome do shine to a remarkable degree.A diamond rubbed with a woolen cloth,
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The Sykorsky Biplane with a Car for Seven Passengers name of the new airship which is the in-vention of M. Sykorsky. It has alreadymade a flight of 64 minutes carrying sevenpassengers in the cabin, j The machine does not differ greatlyfrom the ordinary biplane except that itis larger. In front of the planes a cabinwith a roof-and glass sides projects inwhich the pilot and passengers can sit ormoveabout as they please. Doubts were at first expressed by theRussian authorities as to the practicabil-ity of the machine, but official trials werecarried out in the presence of a commis-sion of experts and the machine wasacquired for the Russian army. Recent 1 yM. Sykorsky was commanded to fly themachine before the Czar. or against a hard surface, will sometimesshine brilliantly. The emission of light isa property belonging to many, if not all,kinds of crystals. There is found at Hastings, on theHudson River, a variety of white marblewhich gives out a flame colored glowwhen pounded, and bright

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