. Cassier's magazine. unques-tionably it will be found more conduciveto vigour and enterprise. >1 THE WIDENING USE OF SMALL ELECTRIC MOTORS WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO AMERICAN PRACTICE By F. H. Kimball TWENTY-FIVE years ago theelectric motor was scarcely morethan a toy, and was hardly to befound outside of the precincts of somescientists laboratory or the collection ofrather crude electrical apparatus on theshelves of an academy or high future possibilities as a leading ad-junct in manufacturing industries andthe economics of the life of the twentiethcentury had hardly been dreame
. Cassier's magazine. unques-tionably it will be found more conduciveto vigour and enterprise. >1 THE WIDENING USE OF SMALL ELECTRIC MOTORS WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO AMERICAN PRACTICE By F. H. Kimball TWENTY-FIVE years ago theelectric motor was scarcely morethan a toy, and was hardly to befound outside of the precincts of somescientists laboratory or the collection ofrather crude electrical apparatus on theshelves of an academy or high future possibilities as a leading ad-junct in manufacturing industries andthe economics of the life of the twentiethcentury had hardly been dreamed of. variety of uses to which they are putcan hardly be catalogued. While theextent to which the larger machines ofthis class are employed is but little real-ised, the variety of purposes in connec-tion with which the smaller sizes ofmotors have been used is still less knownto the majority of people. It may,therefore, be interesting to brieflyglance at a few of the varied uses towhich small electric motors have been. -A PORTABLE ELECTRIC HOIST, MADE BY THE LIDGERWOOD MFG. CO., NEW YORKCAPACITY 1000 LBS. LIFTED 200 FEET PER MINUTE. MOTOR SUPPLIED BY THEGENERAL ELECTRIC CO., SCHENECTADY, N. Y. The number of electric motors in useat the present time in the United Statesis enormous,—probably more than 250,-0oo, exclusive of fan motors,—and the applied and observe how widely theiremployment is associated with the lifeand industry of the present periodof most strenuous activity. Notwith- 291 292 CASSIERS MAGAZINE
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