Verbatim report of the ... Annual Meeting of the American Street-Railway Association (1884)
American Street Railway Association. Meeting · Brooklyn, N.Y. : Office of the Association · leaf 231
call your attention to is this— it is indicated in the lower line representing the number of amperes. When we first put on the current we started in with about nine amperes. It drops down so that its normal flow of current is a little over seven. Now the moment I prevent the escape of heat, what is… … decreasing the amount of heat generated removes the possibility of the heater ever reaching a temperature where it is liable to prove injurious to the heater or anything in contact with it, and that is the point that I especially desire to make in connection with the change of resistance, in simply…
Electric railroads · Street-railroads
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