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Electric Lighting And Railways, A Textbook On ITC C-3 Hard Cover 1897, 1901
Electric Lighting And Railways, A Textbook On ITC C-3 Hard Cover 1897, 1901
Arithmetic, mensuration and use of letters in formulas, principles of mechanics, machine elements, elements of electricity & magnetism, Dynamos and motors, operation of dynamos and motors.
These textbooks on Electric Lighting and Railways have been prepared to replace those formerly issued under the title of " A Treatise on Electric Power and Lighting." In order to keep pace with the advances and improvements of the past few years, it has been found necessary to rewrite-our former textbooks and add a large amount of new material. This has resulted in practically a new Course throughout. In addition to covering the field of Electric Lighting and Railways in a most thorough manner, these volumes also contain all the necessary instruction on Alternating Currents, Electric Power Transmission, and allied subjects that the student requires in order to understand thoroughly the various methods of power distribution. The introduction of the enclosed-arc lamp has brought about many changes in the field of electric lighting, and this has been given the consideration it deserves. The subject of Interior Wiring is closely allied to Electric Lighting and Railways, and has been added to the Course, three sections having been specially prepared for this branch alone. The sections on Electric Railways have been made so complete that the student cannot help but obtain a good knowledge of all the component parts of a street-railway equipment. Controllers have been treated in particular detail in order that the student may become well posted on the methods and connections used for car control. In addition to the above, a section on the practical operation of dynamos and motors has also been added.
In preparing the descriptions of various types of apparatus, the aim has been to take typical examples that illustrate the underlying principles and to so illustrate and explain these that the student will have no difficulty in understanding and operating any similar devices. No expense has been spared in the preparation, and cuts have been used freely wherever they would aid the text. The Course has been prepared for those men who are called upon to install and operate electrical apparatus, rather than for designers; hence, the instruction throughout has been made as practical and simple as possible. Only those methods that are in common use have been described, and special and experimental methods have been entirely avoided or given very brief mention. While descriptions of new methods and appliances have been inserted, care has been taken not to leave out those older methods that are still in extensive use and with which the station engineer must be familiar if he -is to be successful. It is believed, therefore, that these textbooks will be found to contain just that information which is needed for the successful operation of a light or power plant. While this Course is considerably larger than the one which it replaces, it will be found that the amount of study necessary is increased little, if any; whereas, the text-. books, as works of reference, are very much more valuable.
As formerly printed there were five volumes in this set. The subjects of Geometrical Drawing and Mechanical Drawing were included in a large volume and many students have objected to it on account of the inconvenience attending its use. We have therefore had this volume reset and the type pages are now the same size as in the other volumes. The Drawing Plates have been reduced slightly in size, and have been printed on special thin tough paper. They are now inserted on guards so that they may be opened to the full width and are placed, together with the text matter describing them, in the volume treating on the subject of Electric Railways.
The method of numbering the pages, cuts, articles, etc. is such that each paper and part is complete in itself ; hence, in order to make the indexes intelligible, it was necessary to give each paper and part a number. This number is placed at the top of each page, on the headline, opposite the page number; and to distinguish it from the page number, it is preceded by the printer's section mark (). Consequently, a reference such as 20, page 35, would readily be found by looking along the headlines until 20 is found, and then -through 20 until page 35 is found.
The questions corresponding to each subject are grouped together near the end of the volume and follow the text-matter to which they refer. The answers to the questions are also grouped together and placed at the end of the volume following the questions.
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