Dynamo-electricity: its generation, application, transmission, storage and measurement (1884)
Prescott, George B. (George Bartlett), 1830-1894 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 752
application to the conveyanceof their trains through that gigantic tunnel. Existing circum-stances are in this case favorable to the employment of electricpower, as at both ends of the tunnel turbines of enormous aggre-gate power were established to assist in boring, and still standready for use.… … 732 THE ELECTRICAL TRANSMISSION Of POWER. ting one of the rails, it might be advisable to convey thecurrent by a conducting rope resting on wooden or glasssupports in such a manner that it can be picked U23 by the trainas it passes, and run over one or more contact pulleys connectedto the armature…
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