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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 46

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As he spoke the lamps went out, and the engineer lookedblankly at tlie dynamo and then at Jones. The latter worthymerely grinned with an irritating degree of cheerfulness. What in the began the engineer, still pressing his field plugs against the field terminals. Dont. The fish wont bite, said… … terminal and the other to the clamp on the other side of the near-est coil (a, in Fig. 2). The lamps burned brightly. Then therheostat terminals, b, c, were touched with the plug, with thesame result. So also as to d, but when the plug was applied tothe lower field terminal the lamps were dark.…

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