Identifier: popularelectric619131chic (find matches)
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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eading lamp,etc. Many other uses will suggest them-selves with the appliance at hand. The device has also proven itself afactor in preventing the breaking ofmany lamp globes, by placing the lightwhere needed without undue handling. FIFTEEN H. P. MOTOR DOES THEWORK OF SIX MEN In rebuilding a church spire in England,recently, a remarkable record was madeby a fifteen horsepower motor, which wasemployed to do the hoisting. The aver-age load carried was 1500 pounds, at aspeed of 130 feet per minute. The totalquantity of material raised during 23weeks was 360 tons of stone, 200,000brick, all the timber of scaffolding, themortar and so on. The cost for the cur-rent used to operate this hoist averaged11.50 a week, whereas had manual laborbeen requisitioned to perform the samework, the cost for labor would haveaveraged $37.50 per week. By usingelectricity the labor o( six men was dis-pensed with and the work was carried outmore rapidly and efficiently. Electrical Men of the Times FRANK KOESTER
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When electricity shall have come toits own in the rural districts of both thiscountry and Germany, the subject ofthis sketch will be first among those toreceive credit. Mr. Frank Koesters birthplace wasSterkrade, Rhineland, Germany, and hisearly environment had much to do withhis keen interest in the application ofelectricity to agricultural purposes, for the Fatherland is many strides in ad-vance of this country in that respect.He has persistently urged the presenta-tion of this subject in the technical pressand is the author of Electricity for theFarm and Home. When a boy he desired to studyarchitecture and sculpture, but his dreamsin this direction not being realized, heapplied himself to engineering, in which 1202 POPULAR ELECTRICITY and the WORLDS ADVANCE 1203 field his two brothers were already en-gaged. Several plans for steam-electricpower plants and hydro-electric powerdevelopment undertakings in Austria,Germany and Norway, executed by himand exhibited at the Paris exposition

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