Steam road tests with railway test car 17 for the year 1907-1908 (1908)
Jaquet, George Emile, Munger, Guy Elmer · leaf 74
eter and wind vane, so modified as to record this data onthe chart. These instruments may be seen in Fig. 1. The anema-meter is so arranged thafc it closes the electric current thru amagnet, every time one fifth of a mile of wind passes the car.This magnet operated a recording pen, which thus gives… … figure: 16. HORSEI-POWEIR RECORDER. -32» drives the recording pen. This crank points in the same direction as the wind vane, so that the distance of the recording pen from ijbs datum line, at any instant, represents the sine of the angle, which the wind direction makes with the axis of the car.…
Railroad cars · Dynamometer · Theses
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