. The street railway review . the web of rail with a sledge and follower. This styleof bond is often used in double form, that is, the ends passthrough the web, are brought together, and connected witha sleeve. The thimble is about i ^ inches long, thus, it isclaimed, making the required extra amount of surface con-tact between the copper of bond wire and the metal of use of steel to steel, as mechanically employed withthis bond, is very commendable, as it is possible to force theterminal in place in a very firm manner, and there is butlittle danger of injuring the softer metal, the c
. The street railway review . the web of rail with a sledge and follower. This styleof bond is often used in double form, that is, the ends passthrough the web, are brought together, and connected witha sleeve. The thimble is about i ^ inches long, thus, it isclaimed, making the required extra amount of surface con-tact between the copper of bond wire and the metal of use of steel to steel, as mechanically employed withthis bond, is very commendable, as it is possible to force theterminal in place in a very firm manner, and there is butlittle danger of injuring the softer metal, the copper wire. NEW CAR STOVE. 11. M. Sloan, general manager of the Calumet, Chicago,has designed a new form of car stove which is being put onthat road this winter. Mr. Sloan reasoned that the principalradiating surface of a car stove as usuallv constructed isinside the non-conducting ease, and furthermore that muchof the heat generated in a car stove goes directly up thechimney. To increase the radiating surface and get as much. CALUMET STOVE. good as possilile from the coal burneil, four stiixe ])ipes weresubstituted for the one commonly used. These four areextended nearly to the roof where they join and pass througha damper to the open air. The damper is provided withnotches antl a spring holds it in tlie notches so that it can notrattle out of adjustment. An attemiit will also be made toim])r()\e the ventilation and heat dislribulion In runningcold air supply pipes under the seats to the bottom of thestove casing from points under the seat near the door. (j»ti£d/l^\aiWaylJ\a^^ THE TROLLEY OF THE SEA. Most Novel Electric Railway in the World—The Brighton andRottingdean Electric Railway. I From Our Own Correspondent.)The- principal features of a novel seashore railway \\ hiehwas under construction at Brighton, England, were notedsome time ago in the Stkket Re\iew. The linehas now been completed, and bv the time this article appearsin (jrinl it will have been for
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