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Identifier: popularelectric619131chic (find matches)
Title: Popular electricity magazine in plain English
Year: 1912 (1910s)
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Subjects: Electricity
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Popular Electricity Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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886 POPULAR ELECTRICITY and the WORLDS ADVANCE FIRST PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE SCHROEDER-STRANZ EXPEDITION Lieutenant Schroeder-Stranz and sev-eral other members of a German expedi-tion set out in the summer of 1912 to ex-plore Spitzbergen. None of the mem-bers of the expedition had had any previ- ous experience in Arctic exploration andit is now believed that all have perishedwith the exception of one, Mr. Rave,marine painter and artist and photog-rapher of the expedition. A rescue party-has brought him back to civilization andthe accompanying illustrations are fromamong his photographs. The party left for the frigid regions in
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POPULAR ELECTRICITY and the WORLDS ADVANCE 887 the ship Herzog Ernst, going to North-east Land. A house was built at SorgeBay which the party used as a base, andit was here that the artist was found bythe relief expedition sent out under thedirection of Captain Strayrud. demolished large buildings of all descrip-tions, the old tower stood like a sentinel. A FAMOUS LANDMARK The accompanying picture, which re-sembles a huge oil derrick, shows toadvantage one of the most prominentlandmarks in California. It is the oldhistoric electric light tower of San Jose,the former capital of California. Thetower is built entirely of steel. The mainstructure is 207 feet high and is cappedwith a small flag pole. The base is 80feet square. The entire frame is outlinedwith nearly 2,000 sixteen candlepowerelectric lights. There were formerly a dozen arc lampssuspended from the top of the tower, but

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  • bookid:popularelectric619131chic
  • bookyear:1912
  • bookdecade:1910
  • bookcentury:1900
  • booksubject:Electricity
  • bookpublisher:Chicago__Ill____Popular_Electricity_Pub__Co_
  • bookcontributor:Smithsonian_Libraries
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  • bookleafnumber:899
  • bookcollection:smithsonian
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