. The railroad and engineering journal . •Fig. 2. sistances, is 83 per cent, of the total power, while the aver-age mechanical result is 65 per cent. Since it has been put in operation this transmission hasrun steadily day and night. Although the running of themachinery does not present any special difficulty, it isworthy of note that it is managed entirely by the samepersons who formerly ran the machinery with steam power,but who, although they had no previous acquaintance withthe management of dynamos or electric motors, have hadno difficulty in operating these. This installation was made by
. The railroad and engineering journal . •Fig. 2. sistances, is 83 per cent, of the total power, while the aver-age mechanical result is 65 per cent. Since it has been put in operation this transmission hasrun steadily day and night. Although the running of themachinery does not present any special difficulty, it isworthy of note that it is managed entirely by the samepersons who formerly ran the machinery with steam power,but who, although they had no previous acquaintance withthe management of dynamos or electric motors, have hadno difficulty in operating these. This installation was made by M. Hillairet, who de-signed it, and who deserves much credit for its complete-ness and the excellence of its arrangement. In the accompanying illustrations, fig. i is a small mapshowing the location of the transmission ; fig. 2 shows apart of the pipe through which the water is conveyed to. Fig- 3- the turbine, and fig. 3 is a view of the power-house at LaForce. If this plan for transmission of power had not beenadopted, it would have been necessary to use steam powerfor the paper-mill, since at the point at which the watercould be used there was no place at which mills of any sizecould be erected, owing to the rugged nature of the 446 THE RAILROAD AND [October, l8qO. : f■
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