Central station experiences, a series of narratives on the trials and tribulations of a steam engineer while learning to run an electric station; (1901)
New York, Power Publishing Co. · leaf 33
se results, commented Jones. That cold-bloodedcoil is entirely short-circuited; the other three are all right. Whats to be done? Lift off the upper half of the field magnet and take out thecoil. With the aid of a portable, or rather movable, gallows cranethis was soon accomplished, and Jones… … Power, X.Y. at the outer edge (A, in Fig. 2) showed the location of the trouble. What made it burn there? asked the engineer. The vibration of the machine caused the terminal wire to rubthrough the insulation, and the current simply went across fromthe starting end to the outside turn instead of…
Electric power-plants
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