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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that should be a part of everyoffice equipment. Thus we have a widevariety of appliances from the ordinaryfacial vibrator to the X-ray installation. We realize too the great harm thathas been done through advertising elec-tricity as a cure-all. The fact is, thereare relatively lew ailments that electricitjalone will cure—but as an adjunct lo theestablished medical and surgical practiceselect rich v is fast coming into its own. New Yorks New Subways BY NORMAN MAUL Once more New York is in the throesof an upheaval. Her thoroughfares arepaved with planks, massive timberssupport elevated structures, landmarksare passing and real estate is booming.All over the city is heard the creak-of der-rick and whir of motor, the steady rap He already boasts a system of close to300 miles, but when the present work iscompleted the total will be 618.7 miles oftrack, while the carrying capacity will bethree billion passengers a year as com-pared with the present capacity of amere eight hundred million.
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Broadway at City Hall Square Showing How the Street Surface and Sidewalks Have Been Replaced by Heavy Timber of drills and the dull blast of dynamite,accompanied by the sound of tumblingstone in concrete mixers and the incessantrattle of the riveters. More subways arebeing built. Old Father Knickerbocker, still breath-ing hard from his effort in getting theconstruction of the Catskill Aqueductwell under way, has unstrapped hispocket-book again to finance a $337,000,-000 job in railroad building, which willwhen completed give him the most exten-sive system of- city transit in the world. The operation of this railway, which isknown as the Dual System of RapidTransit, will be divided between the Inter-borough company, which operates thepresent subway and the New York Munic-ipal Railway Corporation, which operatesthe present Brooklyn Rapid Transit sys-tem in Brooklyn, both of which com-panies will be under the supervision ofthe New York Public Service Commission.For a five cent fare it wi

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