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Show The Age Of The Dynamo The electric utility industry, in spite of its extraordinary development in the past, is still more or less in its infancy, in-fancy, according to a statement by a well known firm of public utility engineers. en-gineers. It is said that of the total potential electrical consumption, 80 per cent of the domestic and 44 per cent of the commercial fields are still untouched. Room for expansion according to the statement, includes 33 per cent expansion ex-pansion in residential lighting, 70 per cent in home appliances, 97 per ceni in ranges, 98 per cent in water heaters, heat-ers, 55 per cent in street lighting and 40 per cent in industrial power, i While at the present time the average av-erage home uses about 400 kilowatt-hours kilowatt-hours of electricity a year, the completely com-pletely electrified home of the future will use over 4,500. This may seem highly fanciful. But when the electrical progress of the past 20 years is considered, such future fu-ture expansion is little more than orderly development. Few homes today are scientifically illuminated, as are few streets. Electric power in industry presents unimagined possibilities. possi-bilities. Possibly the greatest of all fields will lie in the electrification of rural areas. Extensive experiments have proven beyond a doubt the economy and efficiency of electric power when applied to farm duties. And electricity electric-ity in the farm home will bring with it all those labor-saving devices that have so lessened domestic labor in the cities. I We have had our stone age and metal met-al ages and steam ages. This is th-? electrical age. The symbol of the times is the dynamo. And its ceaseless cease-less activity has created greater and wide-spread prosperity, a finer and more luxurious civilization. |