. Electric railway gazette . hedesign of all the early railway apparatus of that company, developing and putting into service the first series-parallel railway motor controllers. He was also associ-ated with Prof. Elihu Thomson in the development ofthe single-phase alternating motor and the Thomsonrecording wattmeter. In 1890 he left the Thomson-Houston Company to organize the Wightman ElectricManufacturing Company, of Scranton, Pa., for which hedesigned a complete system of electric railway appara-tus, and put upon the market the first successful single-reduction railway motor. In 1891, at th
. Electric railway gazette . hedesign of all the early railway apparatus of that company, developing and putting into service the first series-parallel railway motor controllers. He was also associ-ated with Prof. Elihu Thomson in the development ofthe single-phase alternating motor and the Thomsonrecording wattmeter. In 1890 he left the Thomson-Houston Company to organize the Wightman ElectricManufacturing Company, of Scranton, Pa., for which hedesigned a complete system of electric railway appara-tus, and put upon the market the first successful single-reduction railway motor. In 1891, at the height of itssuccess, the Wightman Company went under the controlof the Thomson-Houston Company and was closed up,upon which Mr. Wightman was engaged as consulting. MERLE J. WIGHTMAN engineer by the Steel Motor Company, of Cleveland,Ohio, and designed the motor and controller now manu-factured by that company. Upon leaving the SteelMotor Company, he became consulting electrician ofthe Johnson Company, which position he now holds,and in which he is engaged in experimental work witha view to solving the underground conduit problem. Heis also engaged in general electrical engineering workas consulting engineer and is interested in several streetrailway enterprises. Isle of Man Electric Tramways. The electric tramways which were opened in the Isleof Man in July, 1894, extended from Douglas across thehills to Laxey, the total length then being a little underseven miles, with a power station at either end. Thepower plant included vertical engines, Lancashireboilers and Manchester dynamos. At Grondle, abouttwo and a half miles from Douglas, is an accumulatorstation containing 240 cells of the chloride type. EiThe line has so far workedsatisfactorily in
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