. Electrical world. leys on the counter-shaft, and belt to some otherson the truck axle. Make a rig to reverse the brushes to reverse thearmature, and—there you are. All this was done, and several other things, before The Judge,as the machine was called, was ready for service; and this bringsus back to the remark above, about things we didnt know in least, we didnt know them right ofl quick. For instance, it re-quired something like twenty-four hours, mostly spent walking alongthe lake front, to grasp the fact that a shunt-wound dynamo, builtas only Weston knew how at that date, would
. Electrical world. leys on the counter-shaft, and belt to some otherson the truck axle. Make a rig to reverse the brushes to reverse thearmature, and—there you are. All this was done, and several other things, before The Judge,as the machine was called, was ready for service; and this bringsus back to the remark above, about things we didnt know in least, we didnt know them right ofl quick. For instance, it re-quired something like twenty-four hours, mostly spent walking alongthe lake front, to grasp the fact that a shunt-wound dynamo, builtas only Weston knew how at that date, would not generate currentwhen started up on a short circuit, because it couldnt. It would notdo, of course, to throw the shunt-wound motor on to the dynamo afterthe dynamo started and was up to voltage, so it was provided thatthe motor should start up with the generator and run continuously,the load being thrown on with a friction clutch on the axle. Butthe motor refused to start up with the generator, hence the ramble. FIG. 3.—DETAILS OF THE JUDGE. along the lake front, resulting in making a resistance for the arma-ture circuit of the motor and a switch to gradually cut it out. It isquite possible the board of underwriters would not pass this par-ticular style of starting rheostat to-day. It was constructed of baresoft iron wire wound in grooves, planed into some pine boards,which boards were set on fire four or five times a day, with a regu-larity that would have been greatly missed, if a modem iron-cladrheostat had been substituted. This road was a third-rail road bonded with No. 6 copper and hada total circular length of i,5S3 feet. The locomotive. Figs. 2 and3, hauled one car, seating 20 people, and in the ten or twelve daysof operation, 26,805 passengers were carried, and $2,680 was this was comparatively easy; the days of trouble came a fewyears later, but thats another story. I believe that the electric railway ticket here shown in Fig. i wasthe first ever pri
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