Forty Years of Edison Service, 1882-1922New York Edison Company, 1922 - 181 pages |
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Page 111 - Wilmington convention a joint committee of the National Electric Light Association, and the Association of Edison Illuminating Companies, has been formed and a progress report of the committee has been made.
Page 6 - ME, for the invention of the duplex and quadruplex telegraph, the phonograph, the development of a commercially practical incandescent lamp, the development of a complete system of electric lighting, including dynamos, regulating devices, underground system, protective devices and meters.
Page 162 - The American Institute of Electrical Engineers; The American Society of Mechanical Engineers; The American Society of Civil Engineers; The American Society of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers; and The American Society for Testing Materials.
Page 56 - Then we started another engine and threw them in parallel. Of all the circuses since Adam was born we had the worst then. One engine would stop and the other would run up to about a thousand revolutions, and then they would see-saw.
Page 56 - gang" that ran., but, in this case, only to the end of the room, afterward said: "At the time it was a terrifying experience, as I didn't know what was going to happen. The engines and dynamos made a horrible racket, from loud and deep groans to a hideous shriek, and the place seemed to be filled with sparks and flames of all colors. It was as if the gates of the infernal regions had been suddenly opened.
Page 9 - Having obtained all the data, and investigated gas-jet distribution in New York by actual observations, I made up my mind that the problem of the subdivision of the electric current could be solved and made commercial.
Page 57 - About that time I got hold of Gardiner C. Sims, and he undertook to build an engine to run at 350 revolutions and give 175 horse-power. He went back to Providence and set to work and brought the engine back with him. It worked, but only a few minutes, when it busted.
Page 56 - What was the matter ? Why, it was these Porter governors ! When the circus commenced the men who were standing around ran out precipitately, and some of them kept running for a block or two. I grabbed the throttle of one engine and EH Johnson, who was the only one present to keep his wits, caught hold of the other and we shut them off.
Page 22 - Sixty of the men employed at the laboratory were used as watchers, each to keep an eye on a certain section of the exhibit, and see there was no monkeying with it. This man had a length of insulated No. 10 wire around his sleeve and back, so that his hands would conceal the ends, and no one would know he had it. His idea, of course, was to put this across the ends of the supplying circuit and short-circuit the whole thing — put it all out of business without being detected.
Page 57 - When he reached this period, I gave orders for the works to run night and day until we got enough engines, and when all was ready, we started the main engine.