. The street railway review . egular Edison dynamos;of 150 kilowatts each, driven by Ball compounds andArmington & Sims engines. The switch board gov-erning the plant is of marble, 23 feet long by 11 high andcontains the dynamo switches as well as the distributingcurrent and controlling apparatus. The current is distri-buted on the Edison three wire system in undergroundtubing. • AN ELECTRIC CAR OF 47. THE Farmer Electric Railroad of 1847, or as thehand bills called it the electro-magnetic engine wasa very primitive affair, as may be seen from theengraving, which shows the reconstructed origin
. The street railway review . egular Edison dynamos;of 150 kilowatts each, driven by Ball compounds andArmington & Sims engines. The switch board gov-erning the plant is of marble, 23 feet long by 11 high andcontains the dynamo switches as well as the distributingcurrent and controlling apparatus. The current is distri-buted on the Edison three wire system in undergroundtubing. • AN ELECTRIC CAR OF 47. THE Farmer Electric Railroad of 1847, or as thehand bills called it the electro-magnetic engine wasa very primitive affair, as may be seen from theengraving, which shows the reconstructed original nowon exhibition among the displays made by the WesternElectric Company in the Electricity Building. The car and motor are on the west side of the aisleon the east side of the building, backed by the Bell Tele-phone building and surrounded by the most improvedchildren of the evolution which has followed. The rails of the railway were of cast iron, two feet inlength and of the fish belly pattern, that is, the depth of.
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