Identifier: streetrailwayrev02amer (find matches)
Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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^ competition with the careful, systematic and broadgauge German manufacturers, and with one accord theyshould be accredited a place in the plans of America,their adopted base of operations. Thus with a record of continual invention, of theupbuilding of several of th* largest manufacturing plantsin Europe, the magnitude of which is not eclipsed by thefamous Krupp establishment for the more warlike pur-pose of making great guns, the Siemens-Halske Companyhas every point in its favor for the prosecution of a mag-nificent career in the United States. The Siemens-Halske Company, in selecting Chicagoas their base of American operations, showed the sameforesight as is evinced in the choice of O. W. Meysen-berg as their manager, J. Holt Gates as sales agent, and
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The name of Siemens <S: Halske for many years hasbeen intimately associated with electrical development onthe continent as those of Mr. Edison and ProfessorsThompson and Houston have been in the Occident. The Siemens family in particular has, besides so largea share in the growth of electrical science, a grand recordin other branches of commercial science. George W.Siemens, a brother of Baron Warner von Siemens, whoseinvention of a dynamo bears his name, was the originatorof the celebrated and universally-used open-hearth steelprocess, while Frederick, another brother, is the inventorof the regenerative furnace. ENS-HALSKE 746)KILO-WATT DIRECT-COUPLED^RAILWAY GENERATOR, Alexander von Babo as electrician. Their extensive factory located at the corner of Blue Island avenue andPaulina street, is a two-story structure 200x250 feet,covering fifteen acres with foundry and complete machineshops. We take pleasure in this number in showing a fewviews of the Siemens-Halske equipment, and beg

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