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Smith, Bridge & Co.
| Name | Smith, Bridge & Co. |
| Ortssitz | New York City |
| Straße | West 14th Street 6 |
| Art des Unternehmens | Elektriker |
| Anmerkungen | Adresse (um 1884): No. 6 West 14th Street und No. 8 West 13th Street. |
| Quellenangaben | [New Yorks great industries (1884) 252] |
| Zeit |
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| 1883 |
Gründung |
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Kommentar |
| elektrische Installationen |
1884 |
[New York's great industries (1884)] |
1884 |
[New York's great industries (1884)] |
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| ZEIT | 1884 |
| THEMA | Firmendarstellung |
| TEXT | Electricity is not only one of the great forces of nature, but it is now employed as an agent in a thousand ways. The electric lights, the telephone and telegraph are being multiplied all over the civilized world, and no one can possibly say where the application of electricity is going to terminate. Before long there are indications that it will be adopted in place of steam, as the motive power of the locomotive and stationary engine. A prominent house engaged in this business is that of Messrs. Smith, Bridge & Co., No. 6 West 14th Street and No. 3 West 13th Street, which, though only recently established in 1883, has since its inception obtained a liberal and influential patronage, in .consequence of the scientific ability of its proprietors as electricians. The firm manufactures all kinds of burglar Alarms, hotel and house annunciators, call-bells, galvanic batteries, telegraph instruments, electric gas-lighting for churches, theatres and private dwellings, speaking-tubes and general electric supplies. The house makes a specialty of A. T. Smith's Electric Door-Opener, and undertakes the duty of keeping .electric batteries in working order by the year. The application of electricity to door-openers will be particularly appreciated by the public, in view of the fact that the old mechanical contrivance is a source of constant trouble and expense. When it is considered, that in that system the entire wire, from the handle to the door, must move, that the tendency of every movement is to stretch the wire, and that the usual settlement of buildings and even change of temperature are sufficient to throw the whole contrivance into disorder, which, in order to repair, necessitates the breaking of plastered walls, taking up flooring, carpets, etc. All these evils are overcome by Smith's Patent Electric Door-Opener, which is simple in construction and inexpensive, requiring very little battery power, and no muscular exertion in opening, being operated by the slightest pressure of a button, as in all electric belts. The same apparatus can be worked and operated from any part of the building. All the doors in a theatre or other public building can be opened simultaneously by means of this contrivance. One of the valuable patents of this firm is simply marvellous, and is to the effect that when a burglar, enters a dwelling, the whole house is lighted up, and the invention indicates in what part of the residence an entrance has been effected. The individual members of this co-partnership are Messrs. A. T. Smith and George Bridge, gentlemen of the greatest ingenuity and integrity, and who are greatly respected by the community as thoroughly scientific electricians and upright private citizens. Architects, builders and owners are requested to carefully examine inventions and patents of Smith, Bridge & Co., who are prepared to contract for, and successfully execute, all descriptions of "electric work." |
| QUELLE | [New Yorks great industries (1884) 252] |
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