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Show THE AGE OF THE DYNAMO The electric utility industry, in spite of its extraordinary extraor-dinary development in the past, is still more or less in its infancy, according to a statement by a well known firm of public utility engineers. It is said that of the total potential electrical consumption, consump-tion, 80 percent of the domestic and 44 percent of the commercial com-mercial fields are still untouched. Room for future development, according to the statement, state-ment, includes 33 percent expansion in residential lighting, light-ing, 70 percent in home appliances, 97 percent in ranges, 98 per cent in water heaters, 55 percent in street lighting and 40 percent in industrial power. While at the present time the average home uses about 400 kilowatt-hours of electricity a year, the completely electrified home of the future will use over 4,500. This may seem highly farciful. But when the electrical progress of the past 20 years is considered, such future expansion ex-pansion is little more than orderly development. Few homes today are scientifically illuminated, as are few streets. Electric power in industry presents unimagined possibilities. possibili-ties. Possibly the greatest of all fields will lie in the electrification electri-fication of rural aieas. Extensive experiments have proven beyond a doubt the economy and efficiency of electric power pow-er when applied to farm duties. And electricity in the farm home will bring wifh it all those labor-saving devices that have so lessened domestic labor in the cities. We have had our stone age and metal ages and steam ages. This is the electrical age. The symbol of the times is the dynamo. And its ceaseless activity has created greater great-er and wide-spread prosperity, a finer and more luxurious civilization. |