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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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is in that direction. It is stated that the engines for thepower plant, made necessary by the change from steam to elec-tricity by the Manhattan Elevated Railway, New York city, willhave a maximum capacity of 12,000 h.p. The shafts for these en-gines will, of course, be considerably larger than that shown inthe illustration. Large Engine Shaft for Boston On June 9 there was made from the works of the BethlehemSteel Company, at South Bethlehem, Pa., what is thought to bethe second largest shipment ever made in this country, the largesthaving been the Krupp gun, which was transported by the Penn-sylvania Railroad Company, between Sparrows Point, Md., andthe Worlds Fair, Chicago. The illustration shows the shipmentreferred to. It is a shaft with crank discs and generator fly-wheelhub assembled on it, all finished complete. This shaft was madefor an engine built by the Corliss Steam Engine Company, ofProvidence, R. I., for the Boston Elevated Railway. The total Receptacle for Water Cooler
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A scientific ice-water receptacle for holding drinking waterin waiting rooms, on street cars, in offices, etc., is being placed onthe market by A. Major, of New York city. For this deviceis claimed a saving of 50 per cent in ice, and in addition a moreagreeable temperature for the water than is obtained by simplyputting a piece of ice in water in an ordinary cooler. The wateris kept at a uniform temperature, resembling very closely that ofcool spring water.The new device is very simple, consisting of an independent re-ceptacle, open at the bottom, as shown, andhaving double walls, with a dead air space be-tween them. It also has a double cover. Thisreceptacle is designed to be placed in any cool-er, and should be about lyi ins. smaller all theway around than the cooler in which it is to go.The ice is placed in the inside vessel, which,having no bottom, permits the warer to circu- A > - .../• •-•>. /1 J\ V-/■/cA r.QLu-mtin:- - , . J LARGE ENGINE SHAFT FOR BOSTON NEW WATER

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