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 40
private lamps were cut out itdidnt drop at all until the circuit actually broke, because you hadsome reserve voltage and the regulator took care of the lengthen-ing arc just as it would of an increase in the number of lamps. Why did the lamp hang up? Something wrong with the feed. Lets look at it.… … When no one was around he took down one of the station lamps. 34 Central Station Experiences. **Why, the lamp hasnt any automatic cut-out in it, he ex-claimed. Who took it out? The engineer colored and looked abashed. I took it out toreplace a damaged cut-out in a street lamp, he explained. Thats…
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