The story of Pittsburgh: Electrical appliances

Electrical appliances (Vol. 1, nr.6)

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Identifikator:: 1831622599

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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

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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

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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 elec- trical 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 trans- formers 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 manu- facturing. 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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