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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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dsomely decorated andshow to the best of advantage the immensity of the wiretrade and tiie part played by the Washburn-Moenpeople. A cap of wire surrounds the top of these col-umns and is lipped with tempered clock springs. Sup-ported by these rises a column surmounted by an Ameri-can eagle. <^oticcty\ailM^j^ayicW* 34:i Facing the north are the exhibits of the electrical fieldshowing feed wire, trolley wire, and all styles of conduc-tor wire. Miscellaneous wires and rods close the exhibitand our description. The exhibit was designed by Herbert Smith, of Wor-cester, and is a credit to him and to the company. THE TOWER OF LIGHT. ON June I the magnificent Edison Tower of Lightwas unveiled and illuminated, and all eyes wereturned to the center of the Electricity Building,where glowed and sparkled and blended the runningcolors of the electric light, softened and changed by themulti-colored globes. The tower is the design of LutherStieringer, and erected by the General Electric Com-pany.
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THE TOWER RISES i O A HEKjHT OF ^2 FEET. The tower rises to the height of 82 feet, and is sur-rounded at the base by a circular pavilion 32 in diameter.The shaft is cylindrical, with the buff surface represent-ing various conventional designs in lamps. The lamps,which pick out the pattern, are 4,000 in number, incan- descent 5 c. p., red, white and blue as to color. At thetop of the tower is a huge globe, weighing half a ton.It measures 8 feet high and 4 feet in width. The prismsin it are each about three-fourths of an inch in diameter,and 30,000 pieces of crystal are used. It is a beautifulobject. Under the pavilion, which is supported on Ionic col-umns, is a fine collection of the wares of the PhoenixGlass Company. The circuits of the lamps are so arranged that thelights can be thrown on or off at will, and the subdivisionof the circuits carried out with the utmost nicety. Thework required three miles of wire. The lamps areplaced four in series, on a 114-volt circuit. GENETT AIR BRA

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