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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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te twelve inches long, andfive inches wide. It weighs about twenty pounds. It is connectedto the motor by a flexible cable. Messrs Howe & Beard of Canandaigua have recently broughtout a new air brake which is giving excellent results, it is claimed,in practice. Patents have been allowed to this firm for certainnovel features of construction and it is said that the brake will soonbe placed on a car in this vicinity, and one in the western part ofthe state for trial. The Selectmen of South Franiingham, Mass., have grantedthe Framingham Union Street Railway Company permission toequip its Union Avenue line with electricity and the company willbegin work at once. It is probable that the line will be extendedto Marlboro. Octohj;r, 1896.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. Barnard Water Cooliny; Tower. The use of nuiltiple cylinder condtiising engines, rec;niringfrom I 4 to two )X)un(ls of coal per indicated horse ))ower per hour,according to size, has, until recently, been ijroliihitory, except in
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widely different conditions of use and in different localities, seenisto offer evidence that these towers will enable a good condenser tomaintain a degree of vacuum fully equal to that obtained by usingwater from natural sources; conse(juentlall steam )>ower plantsmay be operated condensing. An electric station recently equijjpedwith this a))))aratus is the Twelfth Street station of the EflisonKlectric Illuminating Company, of New York. The contract forthe condensing a)))xiratus was awarded to the Wheeler Condenser& Engineering Company. It included one of that companysstandard surface condensers, mounted upon the air and circulatingpumps placed in the basement, aud a Barnard water cooling towerlocated on the roof, which is some sevent)- feet above the condenser.The u)) discharge pipe from the top of the condenser conveys thehot water to the toj) of the tower, and the ))ipe from the bottom ofthe tower conducts the cooled water down to and through the circu-lating pump and conden

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