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The conquest of nature (1911)

Williams, Henry Smith, 1863-, Williams, Edward Huntington, 1868-1944, joint author · New York and London, The Goodhue company · leaf 226

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, if wevisit the power-house, to be a ponderous affair, sugges-tive to the untechnical mind of impenetrable mysteries.Yet in reality it is a device essentially the same in con-struction as the motor which drives the train. Thatis to say, its unit of construction consists of a wire-wound armature… … Lower figure copyrighted by N. Y. Edison Co. AN ELECTRIC TRAIN AND THE DYNAMO THAT PROPELS IT. The lower figure gives an interior view of a power house of the ManhattanElevated Railway Company. The upper figure shows one of the electric enginesoperating on the New York Central Lines just outside of…

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