. The Street railway journal . n. The exhiliit waslighted by Cooper Hewitt and Nernstlamps. THE GENERAL ELECTRIC EXHIBIT The General Electric Companymade no attempt to exhibit a verylarge variety of its products and ap-pliances. Instead a handsome booththe right of the main entrance and DIAGRAM OF CONNECTIONS OF GENERAL ELECTRIC BLOCKSIGNAL SYSTEM It is Stated, however, that the companys engineers are at workupon such modifications of the system as will adapt it to elec-tric railway service. In addition to its signal system, the company exhibited thelatest form of Sprague-General Electric mult
. The Street railway journal . n. The exhiliit waslighted by Cooper Hewitt and Nernstlamps. THE GENERAL ELECTRIC EXHIBIT The General Electric Companymade no attempt to exhibit a verylarge variety of its products and ap-pliances. Instead a handsome booththe right of the main entrance and DIAGRAM OF CONNECTIONS OF GENERAL ELECTRIC BLOCKSIGNAL SYSTEM It is Stated, however, that the companys engineers are at workupon such modifications of the system as will adapt it to elec-tric railway service. In addition to its signal system, the company exhibited thelatest form of Sprague-General Electric multiple-unit control,such as used in Boston; a small Curtis turbine directly con-nected to a direct-current generator; moving pictures of theworks at Schenectady and of the new New York Central loco-motives ; magnetite lamps, mercury arc rectifiers, etc. Thecompany also had adjoining its space a short track on which amining locomotive was run. This locomotive was equippedwith a reel on which the double conductor for receiving the. A NIGHT VIEW OF THE GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYS EXHIBIT BOOTH was erected just tocontained a few ofthe latest appliances of the company. Of these, one whichattracted the greatest interest was the new automaticblock-signal system of the company. Signal engineers willbe interested in the announcement that the company hasacquired all the patents, rights and special tools of , covering his automatic, electrically-operated blocksignals and other devices relating thereto. This signalwill hereafter be known as the General Electric important feature of this signal is that the operating current is received. Previously, the company has used asingle conductor with a rail return, but with this locomotivethe complete metallic circuit was employed. West End, on Lake Pontchartrain, the popular summer re-sort which has recently been re-leased by the New OrleansRailways Company, will be formally opened on May 14. Theattractions promise to be of unusual in
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