supply of electricity in length, including the piping inside the power sta- tion. The effective head of water at up and down on cradles on wheels, hauled by a steel wire rope which passes round a drum worked by a the power station, which is a brick Sprague electric motor of 50 horse power, 440… … BIWA-KIOTO CANAL AND INCLINE, water per second, which the canal carries from the lake from the station. The motor and drum house is situated station. Four lines of 75 pound steel flat bottomed at the top pool of the inclined plane, three-eighths of rails are laid on wooden sleepers with 8 feet 3 to…
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