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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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dinary reach, as it is no longernecessary to read them each day. The necessary wiring from the meters to the panel is simple andinexpensive. The panels can be duplicated and the performance ofthe meters be read either in the dynamo room or in the managersoffice, or any other necessary place, and the performance of the sta-tion be accurately learned at any time. Each row of dials on thepanel represents a single generator or feeder, and the recording indi-cator is actuated every kilowatt hour by a simple make and breakdevice upon the meter. The dials are several times larger than thoseon the ordinary meter, and they are all direct reading, all constantsbeing eliminated by modifications of the actuating mechanism. It isonly necessary in ordering the telltale dial, to state the constant ofeach meter and the character of the generator, the panel can then beproperly lettered. The introduction of this ingenious telltale systemrenders the use of a complete system of station output meters pos-
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FIG. 2.—MECHANISM OF WATTMETER. the field, and thus any error and possibility of loss which mightresult from the use of a high capacity shunt is eliminated. These meters are adapted for direct application to^lthe switch-board, the studs supporting the meter passing through the boardand the bus bars and forming the electrical connection. The con-ducting parts are of forged copper of high conductivity. The threesizes of these instruments, for either lOO volt or 500 volt circuits, are2500, 5000 and 8000 amperes. February, 1896.) A<j ^ ^ STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 135 Coal Pocket at Astoria, N. Y. The new coal bin or storage pocket, which has recently beenerected at Astoria, N. Y., by the Berlin Iron Bridge Company, for theSteinway Railway Company, is attracting much attention. The de-sign is unique and seems to possess many points of merit, since thefloor space occupied is exceedingly small for the amount of coal thepocket is capable of storing. The pocket is cylindrical in form, and i

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