Identifier: electricalnewsen31donm (find matches)
Title: Electrical news and engineering
Year: 1891 (1890s)
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Subjects: Electrical engineering
Publisher: Don Mills, Ont. (etc.) Southam-Maclean Publications
Contributing Library: Engineering - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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top of the buffet. The china cabinet was il-luminated like a show case. The dining room table waswired for a number of appliances, also the tea wagon, thedressing tables in the different rooms, and one of the beds.Every closet had a light outlet. It was something of an innovation in this Home thatthe convenience outlets were not placed in the baseboards,but were located about 42 in. from the floor. This arrange-ment has many advantages, not the least of which is that itavoids the necessity of crouching down to insert or dis-connect a plug—an operation none too pleasant or com-fortable to people of mature years, to whom, after all. theseconveniences should make the greatest appeal. In the Hamilton Home the kitchen was particularly at-tractive; a tiny breakfast room occupied an inglenook in onecorner and the end of the breakfast table being in prominentview from every point of the kitchen, this was used for acouple of bulls eye switches, one of which controlled the THE ELECTRICAL NEWS
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