Popular electricity magazine in plain English (1913) (14785935683)

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Title: Popular electricity magazine in plain English

Year: 1912 (1910s)

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Subjects: Electricity

Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Popular Electricity Pub. Co.

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1198 POPULAR ELECTRICITY and the WORLDS ADVANCE

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Boat Lighting Outfit Mosaic Polisher NEW WAYS OF USING ELECTRICITY MOSAIC WORK POLISHER The most satisfactory and economicalway to keep stair work, wainscoting,mosaic and terrazzo work polished is toDo It Electrically. A machine, for this purpose, is shown,which consists of a one-half horsepowerelectric motor mounted on a small,portable truck. Six feet of flexible shaftextends from the motor to a carborun-dum wheel which is driven at from 1200to 1800 revolutions per minute and whichis applied directly to the work. One manwith the machine can do as much as fivemen the old way, it is claimed. BOAT LIGHTING OUTFITS Any boat large enough to have a cabincan be lighted by electricity and on cabincruisers and yachts this form of illumina-tion is not a new proposition. Search-lights are also common even on small openboats to assure safe navigation at night. A Champion lighting equipment suit-able for service on cabin boats 35 or 40feet in length is here illustrated andconsists of a dynamo, sw

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