Central-Station Electric Lighting
by Killingworth Hedges
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About this eBook
- Author
- Hedges, Killingworth
- Title
- Central-Station Electric Lighting With Notes on the Methods Used for the Distribution of Electricity
- Credits
- Produced by Chris Curnow, Paul Marshall and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- TK: Technology: Electrical, Electronics and Nuclear engineering
- Subject
- Electric light plants -- Europe
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 61219
- Release Date
- January 22, 2020
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.CENTRAL-STATION ELECTRIC LIGHTING
- 2.PREFACE.
- 3.INDEX OF TERMS.
- 4.AN ELECTRICAL CENTRAL-STATION. — Central-Station Construction. — Charges for Electricity. — Comparison of Cost of Gas and Electricity. — Arc and Incandescent or Glow Lighting. — Life of Incandescent Lamps. — The Position of Central-Station Lighting.
- 5.CLASS I. Supply by Secondary Generators or Transformers. — Application of Transformers. — The Westinghouse System. — Electric Motors.
- 6.CLASS II. The Edison Parallel System, with Continuous Current. — The Three-Wire System. — The Edison System at Milan. — Discovery of Faults. — The Electric Lighting of Berlin.
- 7.CLASS III. The Series System of Distribution.
- 8.CLASS IV. The Multiple Series System.
- 9.CLASS V. The Distribution with Secondary Batteries, or the Battery Transformer System. — System of Distribution. — Table I. — Table II. — The Vienna Central-station. — Direct-Current Transformers or Dynamotors. — Installation and Working Cost of Central-Stations. — Table III. — Table IV. — Table V. — Underground or Overhead Wires. — The Interests of Gas Companies as to Electric Lighting. — The Lucigen Light.
- 10.Useful Notes.
- 11.Electrical Measurements.
- 12.EXPLANATION OF TERMS.
- 13.Appendix I.—Principal Electric Lighting Stations in Great Britain.
- 14.Appendix II.—Principal Electric Lighting Stations on the Continent.
- 15.INDEX.
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