. The story of the exposition; being the official history of the international celebration held at San Francisco in 1915 to commemorate the discovery of the Pacific Ocean and the construction of the Panama Canal. r to have set a price forcurrent with any certainty or justice to producer or consumer, and theinevitable economic result of uncertainty would have followed—that theconsumer would have had to pay enough to insure against loss, and the artwould have languished under too heavy a price load. So exhibits of meterswere of great interest to electrical engineers, as the general subject shoul
. The story of the exposition; being the official history of the international celebration held at San Francisco in 1915 to commemorate the discovery of the Pacific Ocean and the construction of the Panama Canal. r to have set a price forcurrent with any certainty or justice to producer or consumer, and theinevitable economic result of uncertainty would have followed—that theconsumer would have had to pay enough to insure against loss, and the artwould have languished under too heavy a price load. So exhibits of meterswere of great interest to electrical engineers, as the general subject shouldhave been to the public at large. And while meters are not new, nor veryexciting, there was one application of them that was new and that demon-strated the growing refinements of economy in the electrical field. That wasthe street-railway ampere-hour meter of the Sangamon Electric Company,of Springfield, Illinois. The factory of this company was devoted exclusively to the manufactureof electric meters and their accessories, and its display was very comprehen-sive, including many examples of transformers and shunts. The functionof the street-railway meter was so broadly typical of the times, and touches. CONVEYER SYSTEM FOR A MODERN FACTORY
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