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pressnre tban tho boiler’ pressure. ‘Two stop valves are
Hinder fam the duplicate amis ange, The
in is HELP, but it is capable,
Trela’s Bios Pormnrrat anv Brow Fasquancr Wowx.—Fre, 2.
cent. above this losd. A heary
-nibeel is keyed to the crankvheft, and the wheel boss ie
Motpeparel basen ts toe Oyu emo, ‘The sides of the
Seca a cm a i engin for Dis
doy 7am pamps are (or
and pamp the oil under pressars (which oan, ba
1 the asin Dearige ander and ove, also
erosichead pins and slide
Srig ou fey 38
‘be moving:
aa the engines are balazoed in he oral,
friction metal ig used in all the
: feat The engi, is lao anppliod with »
form surrounding both cylinders, an
suinformediats, platform to enable the atiend-
nat tet the crom-head, alides, and indi
cating apparatas,
The
Serlintar ends Longglastabe paved ix a hand fe
cleotrical
by the
commatatot itself
the brush holders ancoessively - rotated past him. Tbe
carront is taken of to the main terminals from
‘the. oiroular tive and negative brash bare
termioal brashes, the current bziog too
ree permit the mo ‘of flexible lade, Notwithstend-
ade of the machine, the number of parts
Bea the diffcalty of erection, it was started
‘under load without incident, and was at once pat on to Cor-
poration supply maine, and bes been in use almost daily
from the Davenber until recently, when the exigencies
of the load no longer demanded it. ‘The electrical eflicienoy
of the eet is over 98 per cont, The commercial efficienoy
hhaa not yet been determined, owing to the machine having
‘been required for service.
. TESLA'S HIGH POTENTIAL AND HIGH
» FREQUENOY WORE.
Few inventor, in this last decade of century of invantion,
have made a greater impression on the po ase ie
than Nikola Teala,‘Thongh by raon «Southern Siar, be
hhas now been for many years in ate of
wd Bens kis aoe ft be psa
bis soaring saientiée imagination, while from bis canon
oot meat he Bo dosbt zens ‘an extea stimnlns to caery his
to
‘are in Boa erly prt of ‘hia career, did sone good work
in connection with polyphase carrenta, bat soms 10 years
new and slariling esone rea emnat They have = .
yet not found moh
‘the most astounding social
‘practical application, may yet lead ta
toeial and industrial relations.
sl
A ietter from Tesla, giving a sketch of his ‘work apd
describing some recent experiments, appears in the Blectrica;
“Goux Bxruhonre i Tesca’s Lanouaroay: wren Cunnamrs oF
‘Bian Porexris, ano, Hiow Baxqumstcr,
i te a high
ars. body, tm thin expedient re Be potential
foul ery aed
charges conveyed io it throngh the
Ravine (WX), Maich 20uby 1609," From this and ‘ther
we ‘the matertal for
eourees we have deri ‘the following
sctonnt of Ta isetigatons on nthe production of onr-
vents of extremely bigh pete
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tionted by three attractive lines of investigation: “there
‘wero the excessive presrares of million
Drustcal ayy; there wete the onrrents of at hundreds of
‘aaperes Which appesledto the imaginetion by
their netoniahi
festa; and, moat ntoreting an
electrical vibrations with thele
amysterions actions at a acca
“The production of high eléctrioal wos finelly
choven sy aoonarly, the iat stop ia the exporelion of tbe
whole field,’ Some attention was given to statio electricity
with the experiments
of Franklin a a
starting point.
‘Verious generators of
static olectricity were
‘tried, and tome new
ones, were designed.
"Tela hae nota geb
pooled aby cena
‘of thee stati
Tele, however,
goon ‘convinced
Dimeelf — that ~
require
oumbertome and
chinery,
EQ nou be wey
onvenket, An”
inoomparably better
‘of developing
Bigs arewae by
delivering violent
blows
as with
The
hammer.”
In the. sume way,
rensoned | Tea I
enormous,
jena wie se devloped J the most convenient way
the electro-magnetic energy of arrested current.
ie Phin turned Tel’ stention se oso of transformers
and induotion coils for obtaining hia high pressaree,
slresdy in existence wete evidently sa nat adequate for heend
inview,soTTsaset about improving them. Fit he ried the
‘ore teumnformer: ‘Thus type waa oon fond to have
crear Slnparii Neverthe
and a sas ity
an anrngeneat of anverl of thges tats fa
ste are, By whieh presi cf 200,000 volts wan.
‘he secondary coils of several ring transformers
tlt, «Abe flak wore ex
Bowe Mxrennensta x Tesid’s Laxonatony wits CoRnnts o7
‘Thom Poraweias amb Hien Feequancy.””
‘Lighting a aiscomented vacuum balb of 2,800 0.P. by high-frequency
heogeyph ikon Uy eight of ba eat
vere omnected in weir; while the pimaries of al, except
i by inealated dyaamos, ‘This, however,
‘qas found to be practically a vary ‘nconveneay aevoge:
moot,
The straight open cére typs was then tried; several im-
Provementa in the insulation and arrangement of coils were
tried, which spear to have bean mach the mame aa what has
tong been known to the makers of induction coils, such as
in compartments, making the insulation .thisker.
‘hore ¢rreast DP. erited between aijeoent pars of the
coil, and no on, The first real advance made by Tesla
ia to be. his coil
4. nnipolar
ssoondary. One ter
‘minal of the second-
ree | oe
stant at ‘powiblo
from the be Priory.
nied
ian 1arRe,. Agarions
Giscovery made by
Teala in connection
i his ype of st
was that the best
Fputa row pt me
wire
ma equal to