. The street railway review . singlephase alternating current, the power houses being placed as far apartas the insulation of an alternating current transmission wouldpermit. M. The entire elimination of sub-Stations. 3these essential features, and I therefore feel warranted in describing an improvement upon the system I originally proposed, by whichI can secure the important and now well understood advantages ofa multiple control of any desired number of locomotive units. FC L T«USilO»*£8 Fig. 1. ~^cz>4^|oJ]c.@C Fig. i illustrates diagramatically one form of my multiple unitvoltage speed c
. The street railway review . singlephase alternating current, the power houses being placed as far apartas the insulation of an alternating current transmission wouldpermit. M. The entire elimination of sub-Stations. 3these essential features, and I therefore feel warranted in describing an improvement upon the system I originally proposed, by whichI can secure the important and now well understood advantages ofa multiple control of any desired number of locomotive units. FC L T«USilO»*£8 Fig. 1. ~^cz>4^|oJ]c.@C Fig. i illustrates diagramatically one form of my multiple unitvoltage speed control as applied to motive units for trunk line service. The current is generated in the form of a ternal ing current at as high an electromotive fori practicable to ay 20,000 volts. A moving contact leads the single phasealternating current upon the locomotive. If dee trans formers can be placed at suitable points along the line of the railway which will reduce the initial 1 ired lower e in 1 upon tin- contact condtl In many instances it may bi dc irab upon tin .. transformer 1 for reducing the tension of the alternatingcurrent led to thi V \ tingle i tor on ti •■mating current and 1- driven by it continuously at a poli-tically con,taut -|. ing through the motor,Iwing led to ground through a moving contact lhi - 1 and also a largecontinuous currenl dynamo D cited by I 1 in mi R1 ». 1 linn motor an connected in multiple dynamo l>■ parately and1 K1. lie - 10 obtai
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