. The Westinghouse Companies exhibits at the International Railway Congress, Washington, Nineteen hundred and five . se of thecongress by the order placed by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroadfor twenty-five Westinghouse single-phase locomotives, the most interesting step of thepast ten years in railway and electrical progress. While the New Haven locomotives willbe vised at first mainly over the direct current electric lines of the transformed New YorkCentral terminal system, it was chiefly in contemplation of the eventual electrical operation of at least a part ot theNew Havens ma
. The Westinghouse Companies exhibits at the International Railway Congress, Washington, Nineteen hundred and five . se of thecongress by the order placed by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroadfor twenty-five Westinghouse single-phase locomotives, the most interesting step of thepast ten years in railway and electrical progress. While the New Haven locomotives willbe vised at first mainly over the direct current electric lines of the transformed New YorkCentral terminal system, it was chiefly in contemplation of the eventual electrical operation of at least a part ot theNew Havens main lines on analternating current system that therailroads engineers decided uponthe single-phase equipment. Thisprovision for the future is madepossible by the feature ot the adapt-ability of the new Westinghousemotor to either alternating current ordirect current service. The story of the tremendousadvances of the past twenty years inelectrical science is primarily the storyof the wide application ot the alter-nating current system. When GeorgeWestinghouse began the manufactureof electrical apparatus in 1886,. Westinghouse Single-phase Locomotive Used inSwedish Government Tests 24 INTERNATIONAL RAILWAY CONGRESS eighteen years after his invention ot the air brake, the theoretical possibilities of elec-tricity were fully appreciated, but little progress had been made in the solution ot theproblems of its practical use. The Westing-house Electric and Manufacturing Company,through its early championship of the alter-nating current system of high voltage powertransmission, at once assumed a prominentpart in the development of the new industry,has grown in pace with it, and has consistentlymaintained to the present day its leadershipin electrical inventive achievement. In itsfirst year of business, it installed several smallalternating current plants for generatingelectricity at high voltages to be transmittedover wide areas and transformed at variousdistributing points to the low
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