Dynamo-electricity: its generation, application, transmission, storage and measurement (1884)
Prescott, George B. (George Bartlett), 1830-1894 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 770
c-tricity thereby developed is led by conducting wires, first to onewindlass and then to another. These two windlasses, mountedon four-wheeled carriages, are seen at the right and the left ofthe field in fig. 487. By means of a small steel cable, half aninch in diameter, these windlasses… … 750 THE ELECTRICAL TRANSMISSION OF POWER. bevel wheel carries a pitcli pinion, and over this and a cogwheel on the hind axle of the wagon runs a pitch chain. By asimple shifting of the gearing, motion is transferred from thewindlass to the latter system and a headland movement of thewagon obtained.…
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