Power on the Farm Aims for Rural Electrification Spread
The article discusses rural power expansion led by electric companies, rural service departments, and maps of districts. It highlights the cost advantages of centralized power, planned rural rates, and a large investment to bring electricity to farms, homes, and industries with a national push toward a pervasive grid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guy E. Tripp
Westinghouse Company
Engineers’ Society of
Western Penn-sulgania
Omar Khayyam
America
Samuel Insull
Common Wealth Edison Company
E. A. White
National Committee On the
Chicago
New Hampshire
California
Alabama
Minnesota
Wls
National Electric Light Association
Alabama Power Company
Fuel From Dust Explodes to Power New Fuel Source
Government experiments show dust can yield explosive energy, but Popular Science Monthly reports a new fuel from dust or scouring powder. W A Noel of the Agriculture Department describes its use in steam or gas engines. Many inflammable dusts exist from wood to grain and aluminum dust is among the most powerful.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Upper
Michigan
Wisconsin
Illinois
Indiana
Kentucky
Virginia
Commonwealth Edison Company
Crawford Avenue
Chicago
Popular Science Monthly
W. A. Noel
Bureau of Chemistry
Department of Agriculture
Deaf students hear voices at American School for the Deaf
At the American School for the Deaf in West Hartford Conn pupils who had never heard a human voice or sound experienced a test of a radio phonograph combination with headpiece and speaking tube. They heard the speaker and their own voices for the first time during the apparatus trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American School For the Deaf
West Hartford
Conn
Wilkins De Trots polar expedition leader tests motors
Malcolm Smith, a leader in the Wilkins De Trots polar expedition, demonstrates new show motor tests to prove their ability to haul heavy loads across icy wastes to Point Barrow. Once supplies are ready and weather is suitable, the expedition plans to fly to the pole in Arctic uniform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Malcom Smith
Wilkins
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John D. Sherman
General Federation of Women's Clubs
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Ontry
Canada
Red Lake
New Resting Place
Eugene Field
Church of the Holy Comforter
Kenilworth
Faye Martin
Waterloo
Iowa
Ernest Linnenkamp
Vienna
Grand Canyon
Colorado River
Grand Canyon National Park
Arizona
White House
Countess of Buxton
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