The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893 . SCKNE IN MODEI. THEATRE. 3M ELECTRICITY. J out any wire or other connectioii, messages are sent and conversa-tion may be held. Fully equipped diving apparatus is a part of theexhibit with telephone attachments; also marine and army tele-phones. There are models of more than 500 patents shown. The next most prominent exhibit in the building is that of theWestern Electric Company, of Chicago, immediately to the east ofthe main south entrance. This company has three pavilions, onean Egyptian temple paneled on the outside most uniquely withEgyptian
The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893 . SCKNE IN MODEI. THEATRE. 3M ELECTRICITY. J out any wire or other connectioii, messages are sent and conversa-tion may be held. Fully equipped diving apparatus is a part of theexhibit with telephone attachments; also marine and army tele-phones. There are models of more than 500 patents shown. The next most prominent exhibit in the building is that of theWestern Electric Company, of Chicago, immediately to the east ofthe main south entrance. This company has three pavilions, onean Egyptian temple paneled on the outside most uniquely withEgyptian figures and groups associated with electricity. Forinstance, there is a group of Egyptian maidens, of the time ofRameses the Second, operating a telephone board, and anothergroup is of men of the same period laying telegraph lines. The. THE EGYPTIAN TEMPI^E. concejt^jsjveixpQpular. The two other pavilions are an instrumentroom, serving also to exhibit show case and show window lio-htino-,and as a model theatre, one of the most interesting of all theexhibits. A firm of scene painters, Sosman & Landis, preparedthe interior most elaborately, and the most artistic lighting known ELECTRICITY. 315 is employed to make a moving- picture of the (24) hours of the day,with all the soft tints of daylight and dusk, the long shadows ofeveninof, and the mellow heht of the moon, as well as the orjare ofthe mid-day sun. A tower covered with lamps, from the top of
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