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Title: Popular electricity magazine in plain English
Year: 1912 (1910s)
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Subjects: Electricity
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Popular Electricity Pub. Co.
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d to have themthere when he showed his relatives thathe had lived up to their expectations. At four oclock the crowd gatheredaround the site of the dam and Bartlettexplained the workings of the small wa-ter turbine and its direct coupled dynamo.He then closed the gate which divertedthe water through the turbine and thehum of machinery told them that some-thing was happening, though most ofthem did not know what it was. Bartlett led them up the hill to thebarn, explaining in the meantime how thecurrent was carried by the wires theycould see leading to the buildings. Herehe showed them how one portable motorcould be belted to the feed grinder, cornsheller and threshing machine or movedout into the yard to operate a link beltelevator which carried the ground feedto the silo. Outside the barn a force pump hadbeen put into the old well and the waterwas pumped through*pipes to the newwater tower, 70 feet above the ground.This furnished sufficient pressure to POPULAR ELECTRICITY MAGAZINE 387
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GEORGE DEMONSTRATED HOW ONE MAN COULD MILK SIX COWS WITH THE ELECTRIC MILKING MACHINE distribute it all over the place and thefarmers envy of the city mans runningwater was gone. In the cow sheds George demonstratedhow one man could milk six cows at atime with the electrical milking machineand in the milk house Mary and Bess ex-plained the motor-driven cream separatorand churn. By this time it had becomedusk and the electric lights were turnedon much to the joy of Ma who had beenfilling lamps since the day candles wentout of date. On the way to the house Josh ex-plained to his friends how the portablemotor could be taken from placeto place about the farm and work donewith it even in the field. He also toldthem of the electric truck which wouldfrom then on do most of the hauling,and of the electric automobile for Alaand the girls, which had not been de-livered. In the house the women chattered overthe motor-driven sewing- machine, the toasters and irons, the hot plates andcoffee percol

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