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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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PHANE GLASS. M.-\LTBY LUMBF.R CO. An artistic booth in block 25. aisles F, G and Y, ElectricityBuilding, gives a practical conception of the soft and even lightingeffects produced by the use of Holopliane glass globes and re-flectors. Holophane glass is a special glass that diffuses the light,and when applied to incandescent lamps gives an effect entirelydifferent from any other form of globe on the market. Holo-phane glass globes are coming into extensive use for electric carinterior lighting. This company will have no booth of its own at the Fair, but ithas furnished a large number of photographs to the MichiganCommission on Forest Products. These show the handling of thecedar pole and tie business in the woods and at the concentratingyards, something which very few cedar companies are able toexhibit. EDISONS HISTORICAL EXHIBIT. INTERNATIONAL REGISTER. The Internationa! Register Co., of Chicago, has its exhibits inTransportation Building, aisle C. post 30. It is showing the standard
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THE INTERNATIONAL REGISTER CO. International single R-7 and standard double R-5 registers whichrecord s-cent fares and transfers separately on the same register,illustrating the way cars may be equipped with either a rod or cordringing device. The company also shows the New Haven fareregisters square and round, single, double and triple; also twolarge boards of bronze fittings for rod and cord fixtures and acase of employes badges and conductors punches. Under the auspices of the Associated Edison Illuminating Cos.there are bdng shown in the Palace of Electricity a collection ofmodels, photographs and drawings representing the work of ThomasA. Edison in the field of electrical research. Of primary interestis the original electric locomotive and car built byEdison, and first operated at Menlo Park, N. J.,May 13, 1880. Diagrams on the side of the loco-motive show the electrical connections for this fore-runner of the modern electric railway motor car.The initial arrangement comprised pi

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