Author : American Committee on Electrolysis
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ISBN 13 : 9781330653708
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (537 download)
Book Synopsis A Preliminary Report, Prepared for Submission to Its Principals, 1916 (Classic Reprint) by : American Committee on Electrolysis
Download or read book A Preliminary Report, Prepared for Submission to Its Principals, 1916 (Classic Reprint) written by American Committee on Electrolysis and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Preliminary Report, Prepared for Submission to Its Principals, 1916 Those familiar with the history of the electric railway industry in the United States in the early 90's and subsequently for a decade, will recall the great rapidity with which the electric railway was developed and the litigation that resulted between the gas and water companies and the electric railway companies over the introduction into the field of the electric railway using a grounded return circuit. The utility companies whose properties were threatened with damage from electrolysis due to these grounded return circuits of the railway companies, attempted by all legitimate means to prevent the acceptance of the grounded return circuit, with the result that in one or two cases, - for instance, in the city of Cincinnati, a complete metallic overhead return circuit was adopted and is still in operation, but the electric railway operated with a grounded return circuit in connection with the overhead trolley became the standard, and rapidly spread throughout the country, and still remains the standard for electric traction systems. At first when the electric railway systems were small, and light cars were used, the quantity of current flowing through the rails was not large, and the possibility of damage from electrolysis was comparatively small, but as the systems were extended and the weight and number of cars greatly increased, the problem became much more serious, and began to demand special attention. It is only within the past four or five years that the subject has been sufficiently well understood by engineers generally to make it probable that their opinions could be made to agree upon standard methods for the prevention or adequate mitigation of electrolysis. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
