. Electric railway journal . or 500,000 circ. mil, etc., when it would be somuch simpler to use the circular inch instead, henceshortening these figures to or circular inch. In calculations on electrical matters when the num-bers run into thousands and millions, or thousandthsand millionths, it is customary to substitute for ciphersthe prefixes kilo- and mega-, or milli- and micro-. Acircular inch would then be a mega-circular-mil, butas the name circular inch already exists for this unit,no new name is necessary. Although electrical engineers in the past have beennoted for their progr
. Electric railway journal . or 500,000 circ. mil, etc., when it would be somuch simpler to use the circular inch instead, henceshortening these figures to or circular inch. In calculations on electrical matters when the num-bers run into thousands and millions, or thousandthsand millionths, it is customary to substitute for ciphersthe prefixes kilo- and mega-, or milli- and micro-. Acircular inch would then be a mega-circular-mil, butas the name circular inch already exists for this unit,no new name is necessary. Although electrical engineers in the past have beennoted for their progressiveness in adopting simplermethods and looking after greater efficiencies, the pres-ent case is one in which other engineers have been moreprogressive, as I understand the circular inch and cir-cular foot have been in use for many years for smalland large pipes, rods or other structural materialswhose section is always circular. Carl Hering 590 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLIII, No. 11. GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE: A BIOGRAPHY. George Westinghouse died in New York City onMarch 12 from heart failure. During a year or morehe had been suffering from troubles brought on pre-sumably by indigestion, which affected his heart. Forsome months he has been obliged to desist from hisbusiness activities. His affairs have been left in thehands of trustees, his brother H. H. Westinghouse,president of the American Brake Company; CharlesA. Terry, vice-president of the Westinghouse Elec-tric & Manufacturing Company, and W. D. Upte-graff, director of the Westinghouse Air Brake Com-pany. Mr. Westinghouse had always possessed a strongphysique and was a prodigious worker. He had theability to concentrate his attention and to turn it fromone important subject to another without distraction. During the past few years Mr. Westinghouse has re-ceived recognition of his achievements such as comes tobut few men. In 1913 he received the Grashof medal,in 1912 the Edison medal from the Institute ofElectrical En
Size: 1275px × 1960px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookpublishernewyorkmcgrawhillp
