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Identifier: architectenginee4416sanf (find matches)
Title: The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
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any Railroads Operated by ElectricityOver 2000 miles of the railroad linesof this country are now operated byelectricity. In recent tests betweensteam and electric traction with thesame load of freight up a 2 per centgrade, the electric locotnotive had anaverage speed of lifteeti miles per houras against seven miles for the steamengine. 20,000 Lifts in Manhattan In the Uorough of Manhattan thereare roughly 10.000 passenger elevatorsand about the same number used forfreight. Of the passenger type one-half,or 5000. are in buildings of ten storiesand over. The electric is fast replacingother types. About 85 per cent of allnew machines are electrically driven. Worlds Largest Electric Range The largest electric range in the worldhas been installe<l in the Montana StateHospital. Warren Springs. Mont. Itwill cook ineals for 15(X) persons daily.The rates for electrical cooking in forcein the Intermountain country makes itthe most inexpensive form of cooking. 114 The Arcliitcct and Engineer
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BVRLEY HIGH SCHOOL BUILDIXG, BURLEY. IDAHO Electric Heating for a Large HighSchool SOMETHING unique in school househeating has been introduced by theschool authorities at Burley, Idaho. Anew high school building recently fin-ished there has been equipped with anelectric heating plant, said to be thelargest of its kind in the world. Thebuilding has been occupied since lastSeptember. It is constructed of con-crete and is three stories high with noth-ing below the ground level except a gym-nasium and the heating plant rooms. C.Lewis Wilson, an architect of Butte,Mont., planned the building. The school trustees chose the electricheating system after investigating a sim-ilar plant at Rupert, Idaho, which isabout nine miles from Burley. The Min-idoka dam, where the energj- for thebuilding is generated, is twenty-twomiles from Burley, on the Snake river.The government contract is with thecity of Burley and the school has a con-tract with the city. According to thiscontract, electricity is fu

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  • bookpublisher:San_Francisco__Calif____Architect_and_Engineer_Co
  • bookcontributor:San_Francisco_Public_Library
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