. The street railway review . This department is devoted to the construction and operation of electric railwaypower houses. Correspondence from practical men is specially invited. Both the •6users and makers of power house appliances are expected to give their views andexperiences on subjects within the range of the department. A Possible Cause for Fly-Wheel Accidents. In a paper on Fly-Wheels and Why They Burst readbefore the Electric Club of Cleveland and published in theReview for January, 1S96, page 17, Prof. C. H. Benjaminmakes the following statement: A careful study of the fly-wheel acc
. The street railway review . This department is devoted to the construction and operation of electric railwaypower houses. Correspondence from practical men is specially invited. Both the •6users and makers of power house appliances are expected to give their views andexperiences on subjects within the range of the department. A Possible Cause for Fly-Wheel Accidents. In a paper on Fly-Wheels and Why They Burst readbefore the Electric Club of Cleveland and published in theReview for January, 1S96, page 17, Prof. C. H. Benjaminmakes the following statement: A careful study of the fly-wheel accidents in powerstations, as described in the technical journals for the lasttwo or three years, will show that the blocking of the gov-ernor was a feature of nearly all of them ; that the breakingof the generator pulley has been in several cases the directcause of the burstitig of the wheel and that the suddenshocks caused during a short circuit by throwing the load onand off are probably responsible for several more accide
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