Electrical world (1904) (14598208620)

Identifier: electricalworld43newy (find matches)

Title: Electrical world

Year: 1883 (1880s)

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Subjects: Electrical engineering

Publisher: (New York McGraw-Hill Pub. Co., etc.)

Contributing Library: Engineering - University of Toronto

Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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general Westinghouseexhibit space in the Palace of Electricity. There, also, the BryantElectric Company shows a variety of lamp sockets, receptacles,switches and other products, including details manufactured by thePerkins Electrical Switch Manufacturing Company. The R. D.Nuttall Companys exhibit of cut and planed gears, trolleys, trolleygears and pinions, for electric railway, mine and industrial haulagemotors, is in Machinery Hall, near the Westinghouse headquarters. The Pittsburg Meter Company has a separate booth in block 35of IMachinery Hall. There the Keystone water meters and parts,with Westinghouse fish traps: Westinghouse gas meters, watermeter provers, and a Westinghouse proportional 12-in. gas meterof the new straight-line type, with a capacity of 100,000 cu. ft. anhour, are shown. A graduated assortment of Keystone water meterson a revolving pyramid frame, with a 6-in. meter at the base and aA-m. meter at the apex, constitutes the moving feature of the display. # i i h n A

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Fig. 2.—Part of Westinghouse E.xhibit, P.\l-\ce of Electricity —Service Transformers, Switchboard and Rotary Converters. and photo-engraving, with samples of work by some of the bestoperators in the latter lines. Demonstrations of the lamps will begiven for the benefit of the National Photo-Engravers Associationat its June convention, and for the convention of the National Pho-tographers Association in October. The lamps are in use on thegrounds by the official photographer, and in an illuminated sign ofthe Robbins Conveying Belt Company, in the Pike shows, Overand Under the Sea and the German Tyrolean Alps; and invarious exhibits, and never fail to excite comment. The most strik-ing use of the lamp, however, is in the eight-foot tubes which arehung over the entrance to the Westinghouse auditorium, and overthe entrance to the Cooper Hewitt booth in the Palace of Electricity.There are in all about 10,000 Nernst glowers in use in the exhibi-tion buildings, 6,000 of them in the Fine

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