. The Street railway journal . LI&HT ELEGANT, DUUABLE Every Description. Best Materials. Minimum Prices, ORDERS dUlCKLY FILLED. CAREFUL ATTENTION TO Climates Suited;. Vol. II. I NEW rORK: 1I 32 Liberty APRIL, 1886. ( CHICAGO: 1 (Liakeside NO. 6. Electricity for Street Railways. In an address at the Baltimore meetingof the National Electric Light Association,Mr. Charles J. Van Depoele, in a paper heread, gave the following interesting detailsof his experience in electrical street railwayexperiments: During the summer months of 1885, I an electromotive force of
. The Street railway journal . LI&HT ELEGANT, DUUABLE Every Description. Best Materials. Minimum Prices, ORDERS dUlCKLY FILLED. CAREFUL ATTENTION TO Climates Suited;. Vol. II. I NEW rORK: 1I 32 Liberty APRIL, 1886. ( CHICAGO: 1 (Liakeside NO. 6. Electricity for Street Railways. In an address at the Baltimore meetingof the National Electric Light Association,Mr. Charles J. Van Depoele, in a paper heread, gave the following interesting detailsof his experience in electrical street railwayexperiments: During the summer months of 1885, I an electromotive force of about 1,400 volts,and an intensity of current of about 18 am-peres. The engine and dynamo wereplaced in Machinery Hall, close to theboiler-room. The dynamo was connected: one polewith the rails, which were fastened to-gether by means of fish-plates, and theother pole to an overhead wire, hanging motor the current was carried to the axlesof the wheels, the wheels to the track, thusclosing the circuit upon the generator. We began placing poles, etc., on the 1stof September, and made our first trip onthe 5th of September. From beginning toend not the slightest hitch occurred,
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