Evening star., 1924-07-07
ELECTRICAL GOODS !
MAKE NEW RECORD
Machinery and Apparatus
Exports in 1924 Mount to
Total of $70,0 600, 900.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

NEW YORK, July 7.-Exportation
Of $70,000.000 worth Of electrical ma
chinery and apparatus in the fiscal
year 1924, against $25,000,000 in 1914
and $4,000, 900 in 1904. illustrates the
rapid increase in world use Of our
electrical apparatus OF everyday re-
quirements of man the world over.
American electric fans are buzxing
In the tropics the world around
American cooking and heating de-
vices are minimizing the duties Of the
home from the equator to the Arctic!
American lamps are lighting the
cities and villages and homes In the
OF the world. and our motor driven
household devices are tightening the
cares of the housewife from the oc-
cident to the orient and from the far
north to the most distant south.
Electric Fans In Yukon.
Just a few Illustrations, says the
Trade Record of the National City
Bank. will show the extent to which
the world is giving recognition to the
ingenuity of the American inventor
and the integrity of the American
manufacturer whose machinery is ac-
globe with a full confidence of its
qualities. Take the electric fan, for
example, which has just made its
highest record" in cooling the fever
of the United States; we sold nearly
million dollars worth of them to
other lands for like purposes in the
fiscal year just ended. sending them
not only to every corner OF the
habited world including Finland and
the Yukon at the north and the
southern tip of Africa at the south.
Women Demand Motors.
The housewives Of all parts of the
globe are demanding American motor
driven household devices to the tune
they went in the latest year for
which details are available to prac-
tically all the countries of the world
to our next door neighbor at the
north, Canada, to practically all our
Latin American neighbors at the
south, and to India -Ceylon, China,
Japan, Hongkong, Kwangtung. Aus
tralia, New Zealand, Egypt and South
Africa. Electrical cooking and heat
ing apparatus are also in demand in
the households the world over, and
the latest record indicates that a mil
lion dollars worth were exported in
the year just ended. going to seventy
different countries extending the
world over. The five and one half
million electric lamps exported, light
cities and villages and homes in not
only all the grand divisions but in the
smallest and most distant islands of
the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
Radio Boom Continues.
OF course the demand for radio
and wireless apparatus comes in in
creasing intensity and from every
country of the globe, and the $4,000
600 worth sent out OF the country in
the fiscal year 1924 went to sixty
countries. including the Azores. Ice
land. Honduras, Java, India, Straits
settlements, China, Hongkong, the
Philippine Islands and Siam The
doctors the world around are showing
their appreciation of American ther-
apeutic apparatus and X-ray machines
and took million dollars worth in
the year just ended.
The number of countries, colonies
protectorates and inundated terri
tories to which our electrical devices
were sent in 1922, the latest year
for which official details are available
was l09, distributed over the entire
inha bited world.