Identifier: streetrailwayrev14amer (find matches)
Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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interesting working exhibit. The battery is of type E-15,in lead-lined wooden tanks, and is mounted on whit© enamelbrick tiers. The battery is in every particular an exact model inminiature of the larger railway installations. The battery is in-sulated from the brick tiers by means of standard double insula-tion, consisting of vitrified bricks, then glass insulators, thenprepared wood stringers and another set of glass Insulators. Onthe switchboard controlling the model battery are the necessarybattery and booster switches and automatic circuit breakerswith their interlocking devices, a Bristol recording voltmeter andthe Weston Instruments, consisting of voltmeter, the zero centerbattery ammeter, the generator ammeter and the total load am-meter. The conditions under which the model battery operatesare exactly similar to street railway conditions. The generatordelivers the average current required, and as a heavy externalload is thrown on the system, the battery assumes the load, the
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EXHIBIT OF ELECTRIC STORAGE BATTERY CO. regulating railway power house loads. Two motor-driven boostersare also shown, the smaller being used in connection with themodel battery, and the larger a standard 100-kw. railway reg-ulating booster. Among the types of Chloride Accumulators are three H-61cells, with a discharge capacity of 4,800 amperes for one hour, sixcells type G-77, capacity 3,000 amperes for one hour, and typesG-17 and F-17, all being In standard lead-lined wooden tanks. The smaller cells shown are types F, E and D In glassJars, and types E and l> In rubber Jars for train lighting andyacht lighting. There Is also shown a very complete set ofExide cells for automobiles, and Exide sparking sets for gasand gasoline engine Ignition. The Exide exhibit Includes alarge easel, showing In detail the various component parts of theExide battery. At one end of the space Is a group of three large end cellswitches, operating from the Edison three-wire panel. Each oftbeae switches Is

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