Complex sentence: Ochs hired sign designer Artkraft Strauss to construct an electrically lit ball for the celebration; it was constructed from iron and wood, lit with one hundred incandescent light bulbs, weighed, and measured in diameter.
Split into simpler sentences: Ochs hired sign designer Artkraft Strauss to construct an electrically lit ball for the celebration. It was constructed with iron and wood, lit with one hundred incandescent light bulbs, weighed, and measured in diameter.