Evening Star Newspaper, April 7, 1929, Page 106

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.—GRAVURE SECTION—APRIL 7, 1929, e R e Ao WHAT WESTINGHOUSE IS DOING TO MODERNIZE THE WORLD DRAWN FOR WESTINGHOLSE BY C. PFTER HELCK news 4‘, These buildings are electrically equipped entirely or in part by Westinghouse. From left to right: Eaton Tower. Detroit; Rits Tower, New York: New York Central Building, New York; Greater Wm. Penn Hotel. Pittsburgh: Harriman Nat’l Bank, New York; Savoy Plaza Hotel, New York: Civic Opera House, Chicago; Sir Francis Drake Hotel, San Francisco; Koppers Building, Pittsburgh; Fisher Building, Detroit: Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn. Electricity gives a building life Imagine a modern skyscraper without electricity. A towering Westinghouse lighting equipment replaces darkness with day- mass of steel and stone; dark, cold, unventilated, inaccessible! time brilliance; accentuates with flood and ornamental lights, the Only by electricity can such structures be transformed into architectural beauty of the building by night. The swift, automatic luxurious hotels and apartments, efficient offices, modern hospitals elevator service of today has been made possible by Westinghouse and theaters. Co-operating with architects, contractors and builders, motors and control apparatus. Even the huge steel skeleton of the Westinghouse engineers have played a prominent part in building itself can now be knit silently and economic- making this transformation possible. ‘F}}f::rl:fi]::::fi ally by Westinghouse are-welding devices..> Ingenious Westinghouse switchboards distribute through S e These are spectacular achievements of Westinghouse ¢ : a nerve-network of miles of hidden wire the electric cur- in the electrification of today’s super-buildings. But in mil- rent that gives a building life. lions of homes, as well, these and other developments con- Water flows hundreds of feet ahove surrounding levels, st tribute daily to she comfort and convenience of living. . i of a Westinghouse Dealer . ke h f " heat and fresh air circulate to inside, For any building, anywhere, of any size windowless rooms—because electric mo- eStin house or type, the Westinghouse organization supplies complete electrical equipment. tors energize these important services.