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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. 62.---Reading-Table Lamp.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Walker-ElectricLightingForShips/wm/big/062-Reading-Table-Lamp-q75-91x200.jpg "[picture: 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) [$]
![[picture: Fig. 27.---Switchboard.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Walker-ElectricLightingForShips/wm/big/027-switchboard-q75-291x200.jpg "[picture: Fig. 27.---Switchboard.]")
![[picture: Title Page from Electric Lighting for Marine Engineers]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Walker-ElectricLightingForShips/wm/big/000-Title-Page-q75-133x200.jpg "[picture: Title Page from Electric Lighting for Marine Engineers]")
Title Page from Electric Lighting for Marine Engineers
Electric Lighting for Marine Engineers
or
How to light a ship by the electric light / and how to keep the apparatus / in order [more...] [$]
![[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...] [$]
![[picture: Fig. 17.---Showing Old Type of Gramme Continuous Current Dynamo.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Walker-ElectricLightingForShips/wm/big/017-Old-Type-Of-Gramme-Continuous-Current-Dynamo-q75-267x200.jpg "[picture: Fig. 17.---Showing Old Type of Gramme Continuous Current Dynamo.]")
Fig. 17.—Showing Old Type of Gramme Continuous Current Dynamo.
Fig. 17 shows the early type of Gramme machine, some of which may still be seen doing good work. (p. 64)
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