Journal of roentgenology (1919) (14570885367)

Identifier: journalofroentge2191west (find matches)

Title: Journal of roentgenology

Year: 1919 (1910s)

Authors: Western Roentgen Society

Subjects: Radiology

Publisher: Iowa City, Iowa : Western Roentgen Society, 1918-1919

Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library

Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, Overlooking Public Square Superior district supplies the major part of the ore for thewhole nation, and Cleveland takes a large part of this ore. Cleveland, indeed, has eight great iron ore mining com-panies, wTith their own mines and properties in the LakeSuperior district. Four out of every five freight boats,built for ore carrying, which ply the Great Lakes, areowned or controlled in Cleveland. In the ore, coal and CLEVELAND CONVENTION 124 THE JOURNAL OF ROENTGENOLOGY grain trades more than 450 bulk freighters are employed.Such steamers are built here every year by the dozen. Because of its predominance in steel Cleveland has he-come the leader in American cities in the matter of thingselectrical. More than 90 per cent, of all electrical Mazdasmade in the country are now produced in Clevelandsplants.

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Euclid Avenue Looking East from Public Square Cleveland got its start as an electrical city more than ageneration ago when Charles F. Brush, himself a Cleve-lander, designed the first arc lamp, and tried it out upon agreat mast in the Public Square. It was the first city inAmerica to adopt electric lighting for its streets. Now it isthe center of illuminating science for the world. The National Electric Lamp association has its head-quarters here, and its executive offices and laboratories.Nela Park, a beautiful tract of seventy-nine acres, has been CLEVELAND CONVENTION 125 called the University of Industry, and it is really that. Itis a center for electrical research work, and the reports ofits experts have always to do with innovations, improve-ments and corrections in lighting devices. Cleveland is, moreover, a center for the production ofautomobile batteries, generators, vacuum cleaners, electricfans, electric trucks, electric cranes and electrically drivenmachinery of every kind.

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