Object : Electrical appliances (Vol. 1, nr.6)

gears, trolleys, and flexible couplings. Other plants with
their products, are as follows:
South Philadelphia—Steam Turbines, marine gears and
condensers.
East Springfield—Small motors, automotive and radio
equipment.
Newark, N. J.—Meters, fans and rectifiers.
Attica, N. Y.—Stokers.
Cleveland—Castings.
Trafford City—Castings.
South Bend, Ind.—Illuminating fixtures. (George
Cutter Works.)
Mansfield, O.—Electric heating apparatus and electrical
 appliances. (Westinghouse Electric Products Co.)
Brooklyn, N. Y.—Safety switches and panels. (Krantz
Manufacturing Co.)
Bloomfield, N. J., Trenton, N. J., Milwaukee, Wis.,
Middleton, Conn., and New York City—Incandescent
lamps under the name of the Westinghouse Lamp Co.
Bridgeport, Conn.—Electrical wiring devices. (Bryant
Electric Co.)
In East Pittsburgh is the shop where large power transformers
 are made, and where the seven 275-ton passenger
locomotives for the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
were built. It is nearly one-third of a mile in length and
one of the longest aisles in the world devoted to manufacturing.

One of the remarkable features of the East Pittsburgh
plant is the processing of raw materials which go into the
making of the multitudinous articles comprising the
finished product. In the copper shop, long strips of copper
are cut to proper size for use in large motors and made to
become parts of generators.
In one section where large furnaces are roaring, giant
hammers are pounding and powerful machines are shaping
raw materials, the blacksmith is working incessantly to
convert rough forgings and castings so that they may
serve as part of the steady flow of products from the
Westinghouse plant. Here, in the blacksmith shop, the
            
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