The Edison Monthly, Volumen6

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New York Edison Company, 1913
 

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Página 48 - amusement places that line the Great White Way, all ablaze with electric signs. With these to attract the attention of the public, the church was hardly noticed by passing pleasure seekers" until it erected an electric sign." By 1910 more than twenty blocks on Broadway were covered with electric advertisements, including one that many tourists felt to be the most interesting sight in New York — an illuminated Roman chariot race. Designed by Elwood Rice and erected in ninety days on top of...
Página 71 - T ORD God of time, look down and bless Thy people as with eagerness The new year we await ; Bid noise and shout and discord cease, That, for the moment, reverent peace Our souls may dominate. Our island city fair doth lie — Her towers rise white against the sky; Make us her guardians true, That we may uproot all that mars And blurs her vision of the stars And hides her heaven blue. The year approaching is our own — Within its bounds, lie foes unknown ; Lord, who didst conquer sin, Give us new...
Página 48 - Church took the lead because its "somber little building was almost buried between towering skyscrapers, and hundreds passed it daily without realizing that it was a church at all. " An electric cross and "a glowing display on the front of the building" proved such a success that another Methodist congregation did the same thing, but for different reasons. The Union Methodist Episcopal Church stood on Forty-eighth Street in the heart of New York's entertainment district across...
Página 120 - With this current, using an electrode three centimetres in diameter it is possible to coagulate to a depth of from five to eight centimetres in from one to two minutes. As in ionic surgery the cancer cells are destroyed in situ by the passage of the currents. In electrocoagulation the slough detaches in from ten to fifteen days, leaving a granulating surface. The method has been employed in nearly one hundred cases at the Skin...
Página 43 - ... duplicate locks by electric towing locomotives. The water in the lower lock chamber will be equalized with the sea level channel, after which the miter gates will be opened, the fender chain lowered and the vessel passed into the first chamber, where the water is at sea level. Then the miter gates will be closed. The rising stem gate valves at the outlet of the main culverts will be closed, while those above will be opened, allowing water to flow from an upper level into the lower chamber, which,...
Página 114 - Bridge"; a public-house on Broadway, near Walker Street, being known as the Stone Bridge Hotel. Ex-Mayor Daniel F. Tiemann writes me that he has often skated under this bridge. As late as 1820!, in company with an elder relative, occasionally practised pistol-shooting at a target on a fence on the south side in this open and unfrequented street, between Broadway and Mercer Street.
Página 120 - ... in from one to two minutes. As in ionic surgery the cancer cells are destroyed in situ by the passage of the currents. In electrocoagulation the slough detaches in from ten to fifteen days, leaving a granulating surface. The method has been employed in nearly one hundred cases at the Skin and Cancer Hospital...
Página 114 - Ornament tending from Duane Street on the south to Broome Street on the north, bounded on the east by Broadway and on the west by the North River, were but partly filled...
Página 42 - ... separate motor mounted near the machinery in chambers in the lock wall, the motors acting through suitable gears (or pump in the fender chain) upon the various machines. In each machinery chamber will be erected a starting panel containing contactors by which current will be applied to the motor and these panels will in turn be controlled from a main unit in the central control house. Some of the machinery chambers at Gatun will be 2,700 feet distant from the point of control; 90 per cent of...
Página 132 - Till years have changed to aeons seven And I lift— self-moved— the ban!" He slept and dreamed, as king he reigned; He waked a vassal— fettered, chained!

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