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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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ain. Alongside the wharf in the mile arti-ficial harbor is a giant ore steamer —longer by far than the worlds greatestdreadnaughts. Beside it on the wharf arethe fastest unloading machines made.They have to be fast because each minutethat a freighter lies idle costs the betterpart of a dollar. Mountainous heaps ofthe precious red dirt lie in the storage POPULAR ELECTRICITY and the WORLDS ADVANCE 751 yards behind the unloaders — yards thathave capacity more than ample to supplythe furnaces, running at full blast, anunbroken year. Two hundred and twenty-five miles ofrailroad trackage now enters vitally intoone of the fastest games of modern in-dustry — making steel rails from pig hearths. Here with an inspiring accom-paniment of roaring gas, intense heat andbrilliant light, impurities are rent frommetal and — magic transformation towhich the industrial success of the veryworld is due — steel is made. Through a blue cobalt glass and alittle aperture in the furnace wall, you can
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Electric Core of Gary. A Quarter Mile Row of Gas Engines Manufactures the Electric Energy to Operatethe Greatest Steel Mill on Earth iron, losing the least heat possible; forevery degree of heat that steel loses in thehandling means dollars lost. In this vastsystem of trackage there is no curvegreater than 22 degrees simply becauseit is somewhat difficult for a switch engineto round a curve sharper than 22 degrees.Further, it is a literal truth that at Garysteel gravitates towards the rail; becausea gravity track system is employed be-tween the consecutive steps in its manu-facture. By this I mean that the rail pileis considerably lower than the ore pile. Leaving the blast furnace, the gray ironis placed with the proper flux in the open see steel actually boiling. Dante couldprofitably have peered into that inferno. The furnaces are tapped, and the thick,lurid stream flows heavily into giganticladles from which, in turn, the ingots arcpoured. And the lack of basic makeswaste process i

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