The street railway review (1891) (14758287211)

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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation



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s two switchboards, one for con-trolling the operation of the apparatus receiving current from themotor generator. This board contains all the necessary switches,circuit breakers, ammeters, etc. The other board is for displaypurposes only and on it is located a line of knife switches, circuitbreakers, voltmeter switches and kindred apparatus. In the extreme northeast corner of the space a small machine shophas been installed where are exhibited in actual operation someof the modern machine tools driven by Western Electric motorson the three-wire multi-voltage system. There is also shown High tension insulators, fro3 the K. E. Thomas & Sons Co., ofEast Liveriwol, O. Insulating material, from the Eleclrose Co., of Brooklyn, N. Y. Among other specialties will be noticed fenders from the Hip-wood-Barrett Car & Wheel Fender Co., automatic lime switchesfrom Ballou-Hutchins Electric Co.; Sunbeam incandescent lamps;and small batteries from Gladstone Battery Co. CENTRAL UNION BRASS CO.
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WESTEHX ELECliaiJ CO. in this space a line of new emery grinding machines brought outby the Western Electric Co. West of the machine shop are ex-hibited a few of the companys type L direct-connected and belt-driven generators; also a number of Cornish Cycle engines directconnected to Western Electric generators, these sets being for marineuse especially. In the northwest corner of the space is shown aline of power motors arranged in the form of a pyramid, the smallestones at the top. In the southwest corner of the space is shown a series alternatingarc light equipment, consisting of a full line of transformers, regu-lators and switchboards. Opposite this, in the e.xtreme southeastcorner, are exhibited ornamental arc lamps from which are sus-pended the various types of arc lamps made by the company. Inthis corner are also a number of sewing m.ichinc motors in actualoperation. Fan motors and ceiling fans have been distributedthroughout the space, suspended from overhead. A number of dis