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too many for any mere outsider to remember. Some wire is wrapped with Norway; the paper tape, from Manila; the mahogany, from South America; of telephone transmitters. This is imported from the Ural Mountains. immense spool and rolled into an oven until it is as dry as a cinder. palaces. The silk thread comes from Italy and Japan; the iron for magnets, from expensive than gold, it uses one thousand pounds a year in the making manufacturing point of view. Here are the inevitable lumber-yards and foundries and machine-shops. Here is the mad waltz of the spindles that whirl silk and cotton threads around the copper wires, very similar to The things that are done with wire in the Western Electric factories are countries must cooperate to make a telephone message possible. into cables by means of a dozen whirling drums--a dizzying sight, as that here they are so small and dainty as to seem designed for fairy Then it is put into a strait-jacket of lead pipe, sealed at both ends, five thousand of them in a day, in the same manner as elsewhere, except into fantastic shapes that look like absurd sea-monsters, but which in reality are only the nerve systems of switchboards. And some is twisted No other company uses so much wire and hard rubber, or so many tons of and trundled into a waiting freight car. brass rods, as the Western Electric. Of platinum, too, which is more each pair of drums revolve in opposite directions. Because of the fact The main plant in Chicago is not especially remarkable from a that a cable's inevitable enemy is moisture, each cable is wound on an and the rubber, from Brazil and the valley of the Congo. At least seven paper tape at a speed of nine thousand miles a day. Some is fashioned what may be seen in any braid factory. Here electric lamps are made,