Items in none taken from Electric Lighting for Marine Engineers (1892)

Fig. 17.—Showing Old Type of Gramme Continuous Current Dynamo.

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Fig. 73.—English Shopper Switch

Another design of electrical switch from 1892.

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Fig. 61.—Guarded Portable Lamp Fitting.

“Fig. 61. shows a portable guarded fitting intended for portable lamps, for holds, etc. A flexible cable is attached to it and a switch placed at the point of conection.” (p. 152) The illustration is [...]

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Figs. 15 and 16.—Showing Siemens’ Alternate Current Dynamo, with its Excitor.

Fig. 15 shoes the only form of alternator that has been used on board ship [as of 1892]. It is of the Siemens pattern; having, as already explained, a souble crown of short field-magnets with the sta [...]

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Fig. 70.—Tumbler Switch.

“The weak points of this switch would appear to be: – The small handle, which, it will be noticed, is not easy to catch hold of; The possibility of the spring which throws the contact bar “Off” losin [...]

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Fig. 69.—Showing Internal View of Tumbler Switch.

“Figs. 69 and 70 are inside and outside of the tumbler switch. The base of this switch is sometimes slate and sometimes porcelain. In larger switches, the “chopper” switch, which corresponds to the t [...]

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Fig. 72.—Author’s Main Switch—Bent Spring Pattern.

“Figs. 72 and 75 show the author’s form of large switch.”

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Title Page from Electric Lighting for Marine Engineers

Electric Lighting for Marine Engineers or How to light a ship by the electric light / and how to keep the apparatus / in order With 103 illustrations By Sidney F. Walker M.I.E.E., M.I.M.E., Assoc. M.I [...]

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Fig. 95.—Showing Edison-Swan Ampère Meter.

“Fig. 95 shows an outside view of an ampère meter made by the Edison-Swan Co.” (p. 220) The units for measuring electric current today are called amperes, or amps, and a device for measuring current i [...]

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Front cover from Electric Lighting for Marine Engineers

A dark red cover with an illustration of a battleship in black; in gold, a beam of light from the ship’s mast illuminates a smaller, distant, floating ship or submarine. The crescent moon and the let [...]

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Fig. 27.—Switchboard.

“Figs. 27 and 28 show switchboards suitable for use on board ship. Fig. 27 shows the usual arrangement of circuits on board a “tramp.” It will be understood, of course, that there should be an ampère [...]

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Fig. 62.—Reading-Table Lamp.

“Fig. 62 shows a reading-table lamp, with silk shade. The lamp is fed by a flexible cord.” (p. 152)

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