Identifier: scientific-american-1884-10-11 (find matches)
Title: Scientific American Volume 51 Number 15 (October 1884)
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: coupler steam scientific patent link tion patented tlie scientific american patents works automatically arc lights gas check horse power master car address munn tool carriage ant lion arc light
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gth at tlie bot-tom, and secured insulatedon poles in about the samemanner as telegraph wiresare. arranged. In the said lube a smallcylinder slides or run.s, from which a conductor extends down to the car and to thedynamo in the same in tlie usual manner. By using this conductor the interruptions, cut-outs, etc.,are avoided which are cau.«ed by frost and moisture, whenthe carriage running on a conductor is used, as, for instance,as on the Berlin Lichterfelde Electric Railway. The Frankfort-Offenbach Railway was built by the wellknown electricians, Messrs. Siemens and Halske, of Berlin. ■ ■>» stern Wlieel Steamer for the Nile. Id addition to the flotilla of river craft which is beingconstructed by various builders, the British Crovernment have entered into a contract with Messrs. Yarrow and Co.,for the immediate supply of a stern wheel steamer for serv-ice on the Nile, and she will be.shipped in the course of afew days from Woolwich, In design she is like the Ameri-
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sion that the steamer is the one best suited for overcoming thedifficulties incidental to the navigation of the shallow por-tions of the Nile, and especially for ascending the rapids.In order that there shall be the greatest possible dispatch in riveting up and startingthe vessel, a large staff ofengineers and shipbuildersfrom the works of the firmare to accompany the ex-pedition. The steamerwill be furnished with anupper and lower deck, andit is estimated that shewill be capable of convey-ing from 400 to 500 sol-diers. She will be fittedwith several machineguns mounted at a con-siderable elevalion, so asto command an extensiverange over the river banks,and, no doubt, she will befound a valuable additionto the expedition. ELECTRIC GENERATOR FOR FRANKFORT RAILWAY, can stern wheel boats, and resembles Le Stanley, built bythe same firm for the Association Internationale for the navi-gation of the upper waters of the Congo, and which, it maybe remembered, was tested on the Thames in the escientific-american-1884-10-11

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