. Popular electricity magazine in plain English. forecastle. This mechanism is ex-tremely powerful for it must move amass through the water weighingmore than 30,000 tons—the weight ofthe ship. It consists of a greatermotor geared to a large drum overwhich the anchor chain is drawn. Aclutch disconnects the motor and thedrum, enabling the anchor chain to runfree when the anchor is to be letgo. The real care of the ship titters isthe electrical ventilating apparatusfor the great powder magazines. Thefailure of this system to work mighlput the whole ship in danger of an ex- 1396 Popular Electricit
. Popular electricity magazine in plain English. forecastle. This mechanism is ex-tremely powerful for it must move amass through the water weighingmore than 30,000 tons—the weight ofthe ship. It consists of a greatermotor geared to a large drum overwhich the anchor chain is drawn. Aclutch disconnects the motor and thedrum, enabling the anchor chain to runfree when the anchor is to be letgo. The real care of the ship titters isthe electrical ventilating apparatusfor the great powder magazines. Thefailure of this system to work mighlput the whole ship in danger of an ex- 1396 Popular Electricity and the Worlds Advance plosion of the immense quantity ofpowder stored in the armored mag-azines many feet below the water ordinary civilian has no concep-tion of the vast amount of powder andhigh explosive carried by a is enough smokeless powder onhand to destroy 40 city blocks andenough other explosive to last a large Machinists Working on Gun Parts for the Secondary Battery, such Finishing Being Done on the Dock. wires. Every effort is made to placethe conduits where they will be leastliable to be injured by a bursting shellduring an engagement. On the shipof today there are upwards of 75 tele-phone instruments. One man is onduty at all times at the telephone ex-changewhich is lo-cated in thecentral sta-tion of theship underheavy armorand nearthe signalsto men inthe turretsare given by The Cage Masts are theLast Things to be PutUp. A Dozen or MoreShots may PassThrough One of Themand Still it WillRemain Standing. mining company forseveral months of exten-sive operation. Onemotor fan draws freshair into the magazinewhile another forces itout again. An effort ismade to keep the temperature of themagazines as nearly at 65 degrees as pos-sible. In warm latitudes, pipes from theice machine are often connected to themagazines. The intake and uptakepipes end in large ventilators on themain deck which in heavy weather arescrewed down tight to
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