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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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France and Spain. Thearrangement is beautifully appropriate, and the baseshelves of the stand add to the effect. Upon the baseshelves is arranged a complete exhibit of the variouspaints and varnishes made by the Standard Company.Barrels and boxes, cases and cans, quarts, pints and hogs- AN HISTORICAL INSTRUMENT. AN interesting incident is recalled in the life of Col.W. H. Paine, known personally and by reputa-tion to many of our readers, and who contractedhis fatal illness while constructing the cable road in Cleve-land. In Machinery Hall is an instrument which savedNiagara suspension bridge. While the Brooklyn bridgewas building experts examined the Niagara bridge andcondemned it. Col. Paine was sent for, bringing withhim the instrument which is now on exhibition. It isan extensometer, which he had improvised, and whichreposes in a wooden case whittled out with a jack-knifeby the great engineer. Its readings are to the one-threemillionths of an inch. When the instrument was in readi-
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MMONNIES FOUNTAIN—WITH COlRT OF HONOR AT LEFT.— ELECTRIC FOUNTAIN IN FOREGROUND. heads are ranged here in various pleasing shapes, to showthe visitor the types of package and the kind of materialused. The armature and field coil varnish cans are par-ticularly prominent in all sizes, and cases standing nearshow the varnish applied, and the finished product bothbefore and after use. A large and specially ruled register is on a convenienttable, and every visitor who is electrically or insulatorilyinclined is requested to write his name in the book anddesignate the particular form of insulation in which hemay be most interested. The Standard Paint Company may be well pleasedwith its display, both from an artistic and commercialstandpoint. ness loaded cars were rolled upon the bridge, one at atime, until the track was filled. So exact were thereadings Col. Paine was able to give the weight of eachadditional car as it was set in place. The cars were thenremoved and heavy locomotives sub

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