The Edison Monthly Volume 3 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...in this instance. NovelCurling Iron Heater Installation A; Motor-driven Sewing Machine in the Factory of Messrs Stein & Blaine, Furriers and Tailors, 8-10 West Thirty-Sixth Street Edison battery and the vehicle will be run over the road from New York to Bridgeport in making delivery to prove its practical utility in every particular. Conditional upon the satisfactory performance of this machine the NEW type of curlingiron heater has been devised for use in the RitzCarlton Hotel, now being erected at Madison Ave and Forty-sixth St. The principle of thismechanism is just the same as that of those now generally in use, but the heater is so arranged that it will be flush with the wall, thus adding, in the opinion of the Ritz-Carlton architects, to the sightliness of the rooms. All that is visible is a small square of polished nickel having a small round hole in the centre. Into this hole-in-the-wall, the curling-iron is placed. The usual mechanism for such heaters is hidden in the wall. Four hundred heaters of this new type have been ordered for the hotel from the Simplex Heating Company. Attitude of Some Business Men Toward Motor Trucks T T XDER the above heading a I I recent issue of Elcc-Tricks V_/ pubqshed an interiew between a Journal of Commeree representative and Mr (1 A Wells, chief engineer of the Adams Express Company, which we reproduce. Mr. Wells gives many pertinent facts con. fc cerning the electric vehicle situation which will be of interest to all; i businessmen. He.' ' said: "Such men as. operate pleasure cars rarely require themselves toconsider the monetary cost of their.' sports or pleasures, and in many cases they acquire the possibility of allowing themselves such a priv ilejre by the care and attention to the detail of economy wh...