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Identifier: worldscolumbiane02whit (find matches)
Title: The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: White, Trumbull, 1868-1941 Igleheart, William, (from old catalog) joint author
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: Philadelphia and St. Louis, P.W. Ziegler & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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COLUMBIAN FOUNTAIN—PEDESTAI,. / ELECTRICITY. 303 power—a grand total of about 11,400,000 candle-power. The total capacity of the electric plant is about 5,000 arcs of 2,000 candle-power each, and 120,000 incandescent lights of 16 candle-power. It is significant that while the lio^htinor alone at Paris called for the formation of a syndicate of nearly all the leading companies—over twenty in all—the lighting at Chicago, with the exception of about 500 horse-power, is furnished from the standard apparatus of four leading American firms. Already seventy-five motors, aggregating 1,300
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ELECTRIC FOUNTAINS AM* 1 IJ.l.MIX ATION. horse-power, are placed for the use of the Exposition Company 304 ELECTRICITY. alone, and electric power can be obtained by exhibitors in altbuildings. While the subject of electric power transmission is under con-sideration it may not be out of place to call attention to the serviceof electricity in building the Exposition. From the very beginningof construction the temporary power plant, now no more, ran dayand night seven days in the week, operating motors in the daytimewhich furnished power for the saw-mills, hoists, pumps and paint-ing machines, and at night grinding out light, so that the construc-tion could be carried on day and night where necessary, and theengineers and draughtsmen could lay out work for other days andnights. Electricity helped to prepare the material, to hoist theheavy beams and trusses, to paint the buildings, and at the sametime to prolong the labors of the overworked engineer and me-chanic, and light the rough or m

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