The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893 . •?j^ V^^^.:-i COIvUMBIAN FOUNTAIN—THK OUTRIDERS. ine Co., havinor secured the contract to furnish this immense serviceat figures far below the cost, as such work had always been done,it became necessary to devise a system more economical and at thesame time more flexible. This was done. They devised and coi>\structed in less than six months larger machines than had ever \ . . ! been built for this work before, and on radically different lines, Iembodying the principles of the alternating system of transmission^By this system hundreds of thou
The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893 . •?j^ V^^^.:-i COIvUMBIAN FOUNTAIN—THK OUTRIDERS. ine Co., havinor secured the contract to furnish this immense serviceat figures far below the cost, as such work had always been done,it became necessary to devise a system more economical and at thesame time more flexible. This was done. They devised and coi>\structed in less than six months larger machines than had ever \ . . ! been built for this work before, and on radically different lines, Iembodying the principles of the alternating system of transmission^By this system hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of copperwire were saved, as it was possible to send the current under highpressure to its destination on small wires, and then transform it ^o6 ELECTRICITY. down at the point of utility. The courts decided that the Westing-house people had no right to the use of the Edison lamp about thetime the company got ready to install the machines, and the wholesystem was a failure unless a new lamp could be made. This wasalso done at once, and thousands of operators were put to
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