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![[picture: Front cover from Electric Lighting for Marine Engineers]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Walker-ElectricLightingForShips/tn/000-Front-Cover-q75-335x500.jpg "[picture: Front cover from Electric Lighting for Marine Engineers]")
Words and pictures from “Electric Lighting for Marine Engineers” by Sydney F. Walker, undated but approx. 1890 (a bookseller lists an 1892 edition). Lots of steampunk potential here!
Title: Electric Lighting for Ships
Published by: Whittaker & Co.
City: London
Date: 1892
Total items: 13
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Fig. 27.---Switchboard.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Walker-ElectricLightingForShips/wm/big/027-switchboard-q75-291x200.jpg "[picture: Fig. 27.---Switchboard.]")
![[picture: Front cover from Electric Lighting for Marine Engineers]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Walker-ElectricLightingForShips/wm/big/000-Front-Cover-q75-134x200.jpg "[picture: Front cover from Electric Lighting for Marine Engineers]")
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. [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Fig. 72.---Author's Main Switch---Bent Spring Pattern.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Walker-ElectricLightingForShips/wm/big/072-main-switch-bent-spring-pattern-q75-282x200.jpg "[picture: Fig. 72.---Author's Main Switch---Bent Spring Pattern.]")
Fig. 72.—Author’s Main Switch—Bent Spring Pattern.
“Figs. 72 and 75 show the author’s form of large switch.” [$]
![[picture: Figs. 15 and 16.---Showing Siemens' Alternate Current Dynamo, with its Excitor.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Walker-ElectricLightingForShips/wm/big/015-Siemens-Alternate-Current-Dynamo-q85-264x200.jpg "[picture: Figs. 15 and 16.---Showing Siemens' Alternate Current Dynamo, with its Excitor.]")
Figs. 15 and 16.—Showing Siemens’ Alternate Current Dynamo, with its Excitor.
Fig. 15 shows 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 double crown of short field-magnets with the [...] [more...] [$]
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![[picture: Fig. 70.---Tumbler Switch.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Walker-ElectricLightingForShips/wm/big/070-Tumbler-Switch-q75-219x200.jpg "[picture: Fig. 70.---Tumbler Switch.]")
