Modern mechanism, exhibiting the latest progress in machines, motors, and the transmission of power, being a supplementary volume to Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics (1892)
Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 750
Fig. 2. The current starts from the positive brush of thegenerator, G, passes out to the main conductor, C, suspended over the middle of the track,and along this conductor, as shown by the arrows, until it reaches the point, T, where the•trolley of one of the motor cars is in contact with the main… … and passes along through the rails and through tlie return wire, W, back to llie nega-tive brush of the generator. In other words, it is a parallel, or multiple circuit. Themain portion of the current which divided at Tpasses on to feed other cars upon the line mthe same manner, the entire current…
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