Identifier: factoryindustria23newy (find matches)
Title: Factory and industrial management
Year: 1891 (1890s)
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Subjects: Engineering Factory management Industrial efficiency
Publisher: New York (etc.) McGraw-Hill (etc.)
Contributing Library: Engineering - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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to which power will be transmitted at 26,000 volts by three-phase alternating current over aluminum feeders. The schedule speedwill be 40 miles per hour, including stops at stations three miles apart. HIGH SPEED ELECTRIC INTERURBAN RAILWAYS. 88i Cars are to weigh 40 tons and are to run at a maximum speed of 65miles per hour with a possible 70 miles per hour on a level track andwith normal voltage on the third rail. The cars are to be operatedeither singly or in trains and are to be equipped by the General Elec-tric Company. This paper might seem unduly partial if no mention were made ofEuropean roads. However, of high-speed interurban roads in Europethere are extremely few. In Great Britain it can truthfullybe said there are no high-speed electric roads at all. The difference be-tween America and Europe with respect to the development of electrictraction is very strikingly shown by the following figures: The milesof electrically operated railways are. in the whole world outside of the
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STANSSTAD-ENGELBERG ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE BEFORE HOUSING. United States, 4.64 per million people; in Germany, the highest of Con-tinental countries, 41.8 miles; and in the United States, 276.2 miles.It is said that the new plant of the Manhattan Elevated Railway Com-pany, of New York City, which will have a total power of 40,000 kilo-watts, equals in capacity the total electric power available for tractionpurposes in France. The United States has 76 per cent, of all the elec-tricity available in the world for traction, 76>4 per cent, of the electric-railway mileage, and 83^4 per cent, of all the trolley cars. A German steam road upon which electric traction has been triedis the Wannsee line between Berlin and Zehlendorf. Since August,1900, an electric train has been interspersed in the regular service, aspeed of about 25 miles per hour being maintained. The tram weighs193 tons empty and 220 tons loaded, and is composed of ten coaches,the first and last having three motors each of an

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