. The Street railway journal . any special exhibit of its apparatus, as all thegreat dynamos now used to furnish current to drive the streetcars of Boston were built in its works: many of the motors wereof its manufacture, and with few exceptions, every switchboardand controller. The Boston Elevated Railway system has in useexamples of the latest types of the electric railway machinery,built either at Lynn or at Schenectady, and. like the work of Sir THE 27-G TRUCK Christopher Wren in London, if inquiry were made for the monu-ment of the General Electric Company, the visiting delegate hadbut t
. The Street railway journal . any special exhibit of its apparatus, as all thegreat dynamos now used to furnish current to drive the streetcars of Boston were built in its works: many of the motors wereof its manufacture, and with few exceptions, every switchboardand controller. The Boston Elevated Railway system has in useexamples of the latest types of the electric railway machinery,built either at Lynn or at Schenectady, and. like the work of Sir THE 27-G TRUCK Christopher Wren in London, if inquiry were made for the monu-ment of the General Electric Company, the visiting delegate hadbut to look around him. The company, therefore, decided toshow in the Convention Hall not so much great facilities, as theworld-wide use of its apparatus. Consequently, a huge globerepresenting the earth was built up of papier mache upon a framework of wood, and placed at the end of the hall where nothingintervened between the floor and the roof. This globe rested upona black pedestal picked out with gold. The continents and oceans. 684 Street railway journal. [Vol. XIV. No. 10. were plainly depicted by the scenic artist of the Tremont globe was built in fifty-four distinct sections to a scale of 312miles to 12 in.; was 25 ft. 2 ins. in diameter, and weighed 3 pedestal was 16 ft. in diameter, and the globe was placed inexactly the position occupied by the earth itself in the solar sys-tem, the north pole being indicated by an incandescent lamp of100 Two thousand, seven hundred square yards of papiermache, in nine layers of 300 sq. yds. each were employed inthe construction of the globe, the building of which occupied justtwo months. Dotted over the globe, thickly in the United States,less thickly in Europe, and sparsely in the less civilized coun-tries, were srnall incandescent lamps of different colors, each lamprepresenting the location of some city in which the General Elec-tric company has some typical installation; 400 lamps were em-ployed. So far as
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