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Title: The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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from spots, produc-ing an excellent diffusionof light throughout theroom. This is noticeablefrom the night photo-graph shown in this ar-ticle. The illumination The .Ircliitcct and Engineer 117 on the reading planeaverages 2.7 foot candles.The ball room opens outinto an open air prome-nade and roof garden,which runs the entirelength of the auditoriumand overlooks the lakeand surrounding hills. Inthe center of this prome-nade there are two 100-ampere receptacles fed byXo. 4/0 cables from themotor generator set inthe main switchboardroom. This current isfor the purpose ofsearchlights or any otherspectacular lighting ef-fects that might be pro-duced on the roof. Forinstance, they were usedto furnish current for six500-watt General Elec-tric flood lighting pro-jectors thrown on a pen-nant si.xty feet longbearing the words AdMasque February 14th.This pennant was suspended from asteel cable 300 feet long between the flagpoles on the roof of the building.The architect of the building was John
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J. Donovan, the consulting architectbeing Henry Hornbostle, and theelectrical contractors NePage-McKennyCompany. The Need of Good Shop Light OXE of the largest insurance com-panies recently made an investiga-tion of 91.000 accident reports and dis-covered that 10 per cent of the accidentswere directly caused by the lack ofproper light, and in 13.8 per cent of theaccidents poor lighting was a contribu-tory cause. The statistics of accidentsin the United States reveal the fact thatabout double the number of accidentshappen during the four winter monthswhen the days are short as comparedwith the four summer months when thedays are long. Efficient shop lighting is now consid-ered by progressive manufacturers as anindispensable part of an efficient shopequipment. Investigations by reliableauthorities of large numbers of plantshave demonstrated that efficient arti-ficial lighting will increase the total out-put of plants such as steel mills, 2 percent, and textile and shoe factories, 10per

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