. American engineer and railroad journal . d, but it will be difficult tomaintain it under working conditions, so that the leakage willgrow greater and greater and the utilization of the pressure ofthe steam will become more and more defective. (TO BE CONTINUED.) MACHINE DRIVING WITH ELECTRIC MOTORS. In a paper read before the American Institute of ElectricalEngineers at Niagara Falls, by Messrs. F. B. Crocker, V. , and A. F. Ormsbee, after instancing several cases where electric motors have been successfully introduced torthe driving of machines, they sum up with the following con-c
. American engineer and railroad journal . d, but it will be difficult tomaintain it under working conditions, so that the leakage willgrow greater and greater and the utilization of the pressure ofthe steam will become more and more defective. (TO BE CONTINUED.) MACHINE DRIVING WITH ELECTRIC MOTORS. In a paper read before the American Institute of ElectricalEngineers at Niagara Falls, by Messrs. F. B. Crocker, V. , and A. F. Ormsbee, after instancing several cases where electric motors have been successfully introduced torthe driving of machines, they sum up with the following con-clusions : Fimt Qott. —Practically the only objection which can lieurg^ed against the electric system is the fact that the first costof installation is greater than with ordinary belting and shaft-ing, but even this is questionable, since the authors know ofcases in which the estimated total cost of installing the neces-sary belting and shafting was actually greater than the equiva-lent electric motor outflt. The electric system would be. ^#jr^==
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