. Popular electricity magazine in plain English. sea has but begun. The intricateelectrical system of the modern dread-naught is its very life, and to prop-erly install it many men work hardfor months. Save for the hull, thereis hardly a part, machine, instrumentor device that is not in some mannerlinked up to that great factor—elec-tricity. Every gun — the monster dread-naught of today has ten or twelve ofthem—has two motors which raise andlower it. Each turret has a pair ofmotors which trains it from one sideof the ship to the other. For each gunthere is an ammunition hoist consist-ing of tw
. Popular electricity magazine in plain English. sea has but begun. The intricateelectrical system of the modern dread-naught is its very life, and to prop-erly install it many men work hardfor months. Save for the hull, thereis hardly a part, machine, instrumentor device that is not in some mannerlinked up to that great factor—elec-tricity. Every gun — the monster dread-naught of today has ten or twelve ofthem—has two motors which raise andlower it. Each turret has a pair ofmotors which trains it from one sideof the ship to the other. For each gunthere is an ammunition hoist consist-ing of two parts, each part requiring aseparate motor. In the rear of the tur-rets, behind each gun, are electricallyoperated telescope rammers whichdrive the thousand pound shell into thebreech and force it into firing posi-tion. When equipping the turrets of anew ship, none but tried, experiencedmen are permitted to do the wiringand connect up the motors. Thisis an undertaking fit only for the 1394 Popular Electricity and the Worlds Advance 1395. Stark and Bare, without Armament orEquipment, the Dreadnaught is Towedinto Drydock as soon as it is Launched master hand. Everythingpossible must be done toprovide against grounds,! and all wire is doubly in-sulated and drawn throughiron conduits. Fuses areplaced in metal boxes nearthe motor operator. Thenecessity for great carein wiring turrets can be readily seen,for should anything happen to theelectrical apparatus of the turret dur-ing battle, that battery of guns whichit shelters would be useless. Ships are steered by electrical steer-ing engines. In the old navy this workwas performed by steam. In the eventof something happening to the shipssteering device, the vessel would be inperil until some score of husky blue-jackets could scamper far below thewater line to man the spokes of theemergency steering wheels. Anchors are hoisted by winches are controlled from the
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