It's nice to work with digital archives where the censor was not motivated enough. Sometimes you extract useful things for yourself. If in the National Library of New Zealand even the roofs of the houses in the photo are cut off, as here, which can be seen with the naked eye,
and without exception in all the photos, then there is something to see. But let's not deviate from the topic, but read a little fiction.
Once upon a time there were countries where such trams rode (see the main photo). They look like ordinary trams, but … without a pantograph and wires. I already wrote about this here before. Actually, there were many such trams everywhere.
There was even a discussion on them in the comments, and in general they rightly convinced me that there were no miracles here, power to them went on rails. Readers who are on the subject will immediately be skeptical about this technical idea. Understandably, with this method of transferring energy, losses would exceed useful work. But trams were running. And even more than one year in the form of an experiment somewhere in the exemplary progressive capital of that time.
Promotional video:
If you look closely, then no wires are suitable for the tram, and it carries a very significant load. Well, the interior decoration of such trams can be surprising in many ways.
It turns out there were luxury trams. It is difficult to imagine anything like this anywhere in our country. But nevertheless, they were, and only a little over a hundred years ago. Particularly attractive is the dome on the ceiling. What's in it? If the lighting is already there, then there is most likely something else. Are the loudspeakers really? Probably not, too bold for that time. Although … who knows. But judging by the surviving materials of that time, there is too much we do not know, and nothing can be ruled out. For example, the following exhibitions of the achievements of that time were held:
This is just an exhibition of advances in electricity from 1881 in Paris. If you zoom in and take a closer look, then the entire pavilion is crammed with strange devices, but not a single generation object is visible in the form in which we imagine them. But on the other hand, there are a lot of models of churches, as well as trellises, sticks and other products on which there are mini-domes. And oddly enough, a lot of bulbs are on and on. Is it possible that a power cable comes from somewhere outside, or is it all burning on batteries? Some kind of fantasy. Or maybe those same mini-domes, such as these, are still catching up with energy?
In the catalog, they are modestly referred to as industrial products. Apparently good products. One even (on the corner of the table on the right) in the form of a menorah. And probably they did it not at all for aesthetics.
When placed on a chandelier, it probably gave light if a specially designed light bulb was placed in its middle. Or, for example, you can do it a little differently.
If you look closely, the twin lamps move up and down thanks to the suspensions. But how do electric wires or gas pipes (if there is gas) stretch after them? Probably, the whole point is not at all in this, but in the design of the counterweight, as it is generally described in the article: "Lenin died, but his work lives on, or new secrets of electricity in the 19th century."
But such items were made, of course, not only for chandeliers.
As you can see, they were massively molded on the poles, thanks to which our trams drove. But … something happened, and the trams were switched to a different type of power supply, as can already be seen in this photo. But mini-domes are still standing, perhaps they were still used in the neighboring houses, or maybe they just forgot to dismantle them. It happens. What can we talk about here, if there were public toilets too, like from the exhibition?
A sort of model of St. Peter's Basilica, just for the administration of several other needs, again some kind of fantasy … And the framing of the bottom of the dome on the toilet is also clearly not without reason.
If someone imagines fractal geometry, then here it is in its purest form. And such a fringe is far from being for beauty. Such a roof model is nothing more than a modified model of the head of the dome of an Orthodox church, where two apples stand at the top, the metal material of the roof rafters forms the head, and the pommel above the apple in the Orthodox chapter, which is from above, in this case, moved down and dispersed along the perimeter of the roof … Technically very competently, any high-altitude work on such installations complicates operation at times. The same principle is completely used in such structures:
Such is our fantastic country, where it is not necessary to extract oil and fight over it. And there were such countries located on all continents where there was civilization, until a narrow circle of people came up with an ingenious way of enrichment and successfully implemented it for several decades. But that's another story.
But since we are talking about domes and apples, there is probably something else worth looking at.
Has anyone ever seen apples on glass domes? Probably not. And you cannot entangle it with bulbs. How could this apple shine like a giant light bulb? In the first photo, in addition, the brightness of the lamps from the apple down smoothly decreases, which contradicts all the laws of physics. Again, fantastic. But this is all garbage in comparison with the world revolution by an apparatus that could receive electricity centrally in such a volume as on these illuminations, if there was any at all. Most likely, if there were incandescent lamps, the power would be considerable. Let's mentally return to the picture from the electrical exhibition. Was there any generator of sufficient power at all that could convert atmospheric electricity into usable energy, for example, to operate mechanical devices?
Probably could … Oops … No incoming pipes, no outlets, no pressure gauges. Doesn't it look like anything?
This is a chapel from the water intake described in the article: "Again Murom, or the secrets of wooden architecture of the 19th century." At this point, there was the first submersible pump supplying water to the storage tank. Only the valves for this engine for the pump have already been dismantled, or they were inside. And there, instead of the pump, the transmission output to the collective distribution system. Wow fantastic..