. Popular electricity magazine in plain English. The Great $0,000,000 Hydro-Electric Plant at Hales Baron the Tennessee River. A Vast Lake Was Formed bythe Impounded Waters. The Locks, Permitting Naviga-tion, have a Lift of 59 Feet, the Highest in the WesternHemisphere. 1168 POPULAR ELECTRICITY and the WORLDS ADVANCE set for it; it will exemplify the thoughtexpressed by the great mathematicianChas. P. Steinmetz, that material andenergy must be brought together that thehuman race may live; and, finally, theroar of Hales Bars big wheels will bringan industrial growth to the South notpossible wit
. Popular electricity magazine in plain English. The Great $0,000,000 Hydro-Electric Plant at Hales Baron the Tennessee River. A Vast Lake Was Formed bythe Impounded Waters. The Locks, Permitting Naviga-tion, have a Lift of 59 Feet, the Highest in the WesternHemisphere. 1168 POPULAR ELECTRICITY and the WORLDS ADVANCE set for it; it will exemplify the thoughtexpressed by the great mathematicianChas. P. Steinmetz, that material andenergy must be brought together that thehuman race may live; and, finally, theroar of Hales Bars big wheels will bringan industrial growth to the South notpossible without this and similar pro-jects affording cheap power. VACUUM CLOTHES CLEANER A miniature vacuum cleaner whichdoes remarkably effective work in clean-ing ones clothes is shown in the cutherewith — a particularly valuable ad-dition to the equipment of barber shopsand shoe shining establishments as wellas for the home. It embodies a circular. brush the center of which is cut brush fits over the mouth or suctionend of the cleaner. Inside the casingof the latter is a little suction fan drivenat high speed by an electric motor. Asthe brush passes over the fabric, looseningthe dirt and particles of lint, air is drawnin by the fan and the dirt is deposited inthe bag beneath. A screen in front ofthe opening prevents folds of cloth,buttons, etc., from getting into the wayof the fan. GETTING BENZOL FROM GASMAIN LEAKS This vehicle, with its conspicuous,brass-bound, funnel-topped tank, piping,hose, pump, etc., is an outfit rigged up bya gas and electric corporation for collect-ing benzol, a bi-product very much akinto gasoline, draining from high pressuregas mains along with gas-water. Theliquid, being highly volatile, is pumped by Pumping theBi-productfrom a Pocket
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