The story of Pittsburgh: Electrical appliances

Electrical appliances (Vol. 1, nr.6)

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Identifikator:: 1831622599

Document type:: Multivolume work

Title:: The story of Pittsburgh

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1919-1930

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1831623145

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-239771

Document type:: Volume

Title:: Electrical appliances

Volume count:: Vol. 1, nr.6

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1921

Scope:: [ca. 16] Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Electrical Appliances

Collection:: Economics Books

visitor sees produced, motor frames and brackets and many other similar parts. One of the most recent developments of the Westing- house Company in the electrical field, was the discovery of a new insulating material. This, it was found, was capable of being moulded into plates, rods or tubes. Bake- lite Micarta, as this substance is called, is now being used for hundreds of purposes in the industrial world. When the visitor visits the building devoted to this material, he will see Bakelite Micarta moulded into every conceivable shape for insulation material, for gear, ignition distributers and distributer arms, clutch bands for automobiles and tractors, airplane propellers and for many other purposes. A new plant has been purchased recently at Rochester, Pa., just in order to supply the demand for this Micarta. [t is planned to use Bakelite Micarta exclusively for fan blades in the future. If the visitor comes to the Works at East Pittsburgh, by means of an automobile, via the Lincoln Highway, he will obtain a good view of the Research Laboratories, set on a high hill, away from the noise, vibration and con- fusion that is attendant at a plant such as is located at East Pittsburgh. The Building, however, is convenient to the main works. This Laboratory is important and interesting because to Westinghouse Research, Industry owes a goodly part of its advancement in its growth, size and efficiency. Thousands of dollars are spent annually by the Company in an effort to keep in advance of Indus- try, sensing its needs and solving problems before the layman is aware of the existence of the problem itself. New uses are constantly being discovered for electricity, and almost every day brings information of a new benefit being conferred on mankind by the wonderful power or property, or whatever it may be called. Three American Navy airmen, who were recently lost in the far northern wilderness of Canada, after their helpless balloon had descended near Moose Factory, were saved from freezing to death by electrically heated garments. Had it not been for these contrivances, when they were battling their way back to civilization on dog sledges, the three frozen corpses

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