. The Street railway journal . ry numerous peculiaritiesof the actions of disruptive discharges. It is to the task of discoveringand classifying these peculiarities that Mr. Wurts has devoted his timenow for several years, both in the laboratory and in the study of plantsin practical operation. Some of the results of his study have been in-corporated in a lecture which he delivered by invitation before theAmerican Institute of Electrial Engineers. He has been awarded bythe Franklin Institute the John Scott legacy medal for his discoveriesin electrical science, and for his inventions. Exhibit o
. The Street railway journal . ry numerous peculiaritiesof the actions of disruptive discharges. It is to the task of discoveringand classifying these peculiarities that Mr. Wurts has devoted his timenow for several years, both in the laboratory and in the study of plantsin practical operation. Some of the results of his study have been in-corporated in a lecture which he delivered by invitation before theAmerican Institute of Electrial Engineers. He has been awarded bythe Franklin Institute the John Scott legacy medal for his discoveriesin electrical science, and for his inventions. Exhibit of the Paige Iron Works. One of the largest exhibits at the Convention was that of the PaigeIron Works, of Chicago, whose exhibit occupied 1,200 ft. of space inthe center of the Exhibition Hall. This company exhibited specialtrack work, such as switches, frogs, curves and crossings made of bothgirder and T rail. The feature of the exhibit was a section of trackusing a seventy-two pound Shanghai T rail made by the Illinois Steel. EXHIBIT OF TRACK CONSTRUCTION BY THE PAIGEIRON WORKS. Company, of Chicago, placed on Daniel steel ties with broken stoneconcrete foundation and brick paving, illustrating the all-steel trackconstruction of the Terre Haute Electric Railway, of Terre Haute,Ind., and conclusively demonstrating the practicability of T rail forpaved streets. In connection with this Terre Haute work, the Paige Iron Worksshowed the Wheeler suspension rail joint, which is also used by theTerre Haute Company. A clever device for a three-way switch was alsoexhibited. This is a device for accomplishing the switching to any oneof the three tracks without danger of derailment. Two styles of steamand street railway crossings were also shown. One of these deviceswas so constructed as not to disturb or affect the steam road in anyway, and yet provides a perfect, easy riding crossing. The companyhas furnished a number of cities with this same T rail construction invarious weights of thir
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