. Western electrician . the side nearest the dynamos, shown in the illustration,gives a beautiful appearance, being a smooth, white, un-broken surface. The opposite side near the wall of thepower house next to the inlet canal, hasten doors of whitepine with a large number of small, square, hea%y, plaie-glass 86 WESTERN ELECTRICIAN. February 23, 1895 windows. The doors open into tlie room under the founda-tion, in which are mounted the heavy main switches andconnections to the various cables. It has been stated bythe engineers that these switches are to be operated by acompressed air mechanism
. Western electrician . the side nearest the dynamos, shown in the illustration,gives a beautiful appearance, being a smooth, white, un-broken surface. The opposite side near the wall of thepower house next to the inlet canal, hasten doors of whitepine with a large number of small, square, hea%y, plaie-glass 86 WESTERN ELECTRICIAN. February 23, 1895 windows. The doors open into tlie room under the founda-tion, in which are mounted the heavy main switches andconnections to the various cables. It has been stated bythe engineers that these switches are to be operated by acompressed air mechanism similar to the Westinghouse airbrake apparcitiis, the air compressor being; operated by hold all tlie transformers necessary for the total 100,000horse power. At present the interior of the* transformerhouse has not been finished; it shelters a couple of carscontaining cables and parts of the alternators. Thefield magnet coils and casting for the top of the alterna-tor occupy one car, the cables furnished by the General. FIG. 2. THE NIAGARA POWER PLANT AS IT IS TO-DAY.—POWER HOUSE, CONDUCTOR TRIDGE AND TRANSFORMER HOUSE. The switchboard Electric company for use in the transmission taking the water power in the wheel-pit below,stands directly over the subway, making it easy to arrangethe connections to the alternators, transformer housecables, resistance conductors and rotary transformer gallery surrounding the switchboard proper has aslate floor, and a handrail extends around it. A metallicstairway leads to this switchboard gallery from the powerhouse floor. It has been stated that the only foreign in-struments to be used will be some wattmeters. The volt-meters, ammeters and other measuring instruments, to-gether with switches and other switchboard apparatus, are tobe furnished by the Weston Instrument company of New-ark, N. J., and the Westinghouse Electric & Manufactur-ing company of Pittsburg. It is very interesting to note the provision for thenecessary resista
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