Word: wired
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...invention which may make quite a revolution in the electrical world. The device which Mr. Hogan has been at work on for some time and which he says has now been demonstrated to be a success, consists in a little apparatus which will reduce the voltage of an electric wire without interfering with the current. Just what is the mechanism by which this result is accomplished can not be announced for the present. It is claimed that it will entirely supplant the motor dynamos which are used in telegraph and telephone companies. The Edison machine now in use costs...
...Baldwin Bros. Co., 19 Brattle Sq., will in the morning have their private wire ready for business. Quotations of stock, wheat, cotton, etc., will be received as usual...
...tfON the evening of Election Day the Baldwin Bros. Co., 19 Brattle street, will receive, over their private wire, the election returns, which they will display from one of their windows...
...important election like that of the Class Day officers. In fact, system is necessary in order that the real desires of the majority of the class may be met with as little confusion and as little waste of time as possible. But that useful organization should give place to wire-pulling and extensive political manipulations is most deplorable...
...city of Cambridge there are about 2500 miles of overhead wires, and somewhat over 800 miles of underground wires. Many of these are very heavily charged with electric currents of high tension. The are light wires and the electric car feeders have the highest tension and are exceedingly dangerous. It is often thought that a shock can not be received from a single wire, but this is a mistake, for the gound is thoroughly charged with the current from the underground wires, and when contact is made with the overhead wire by a person standing on the ground the circuit...