. Cassier's magazine. zine articles which have appeared dur-ing the past two or three years, there isstill much to be said in regard to thediversity of their uses. It is the writerspurpose, therefore, to mention some ofthe more recent as well as less widelyknown applications where individual ordirect motor-drive is used, and whichlatter cover, in the aggregate, the em-ployment of fully as large a number ofmotors as are used in shops and factoriesfor group or belted driving. In Continental Europe the employ-ment of electric motors for operatinghoists and derricks for handling shipscargoes and o
. Cassier's magazine. zine articles which have appeared dur-ing the past two or three years, there isstill much to be said in regard to thediversity of their uses. It is the writerspurpose, therefore, to mention some ofthe more recent as well as less widelyknown applications where individual ordirect motor-drive is used, and whichlatter cover, in the aggregate, the em-ployment of fully as large a number ofmotors as are used in shops and factoriesfor group or belted driving. In Continental Europe the employ-ment of electric motors for operatinghoists and derricks for handling shipscargoes and other similar purposes wasundertaken at an early date in thechronology of the commercial use ofelectricity. America was somewhatslower to take this matter up energeti •cally, but at the present time she isprobably much in advance of her olderneighbours in the breadth of applicationof motors for kindred At New Orleans, Mobile, and else-where along the American SouthernAtlantic seaboard, may be found inter-. FIG. 5.—A LIDGERWOOD AMMUNITION HOIST WITHGENERAL ELECTRIC MOTOR AND ON THE U. S. BATTLESHIPS KEAR-I AND KENTUCKY esting installations of conveyors oper-ated by motors, used for unloading fruitand other similar fragile articles. Anotable example of this is seen in the
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