The Electrical Engineer

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Biggs & Company, 1888
 

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Page 189 - ... the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man, as the means of production and of traffic in states.
Page 260 - Any urban authority may contract with any person for the supply of gas, or other means of lighting the streets, markets, and public buildings in their district, and may provide such lamps, lamp-posts, and other materials and apparatus as they may think necessary for lighting the same.
Page 254 - Nor is it of much importance to us to know the manner in which nature executes her laws; 'tis enough, if we know the laws themselves. 'Tis of real use to know, that china left in the air unsupported, will fall and break; but how it comes to fall, and why it breaks, are matters of speculation. 'Tis a pleasure indeed to know them, but we can preserve our china without it.
Page 3 - If the requisitions of any such notice as aforesaid are not complied with, any share in respect of which such notice has been given may at any time thereafter, before payment of all calls, interest, and expenses due in respect thereof has been made, be forfeited by a resolution of the directors to that effect 20.
Page 42 - Chamber can become a member upon payment of an entrance fee of two guineas and an annual subscription of one guinea.
Page 260 - The securing the safety of the public from personal injury, or from fire or otherwise ; (d.) The limitation of the prices to be charged in respect of the supply of electricity...
Page 191 - Lastly, there is the system of transmitting power by electricity, to which I have already adverted. I was glad to learn, only the other day, that there was every hope of this power being applied to the working of an important subterranean tramway. These distributions from central sources need, as a rule, statutory powers to enable the pipes or wires to be placed under the roads ; and, following the deplorable example of the Electrical Facilities Act, it is now the habit of the enlightened corporation...
Page 3 - ... the directors may, at any time thereafter during such time as any part of the call or instalment remains unpaid, serve a notice on him requiring payment of so much of the call or instalment as is unpaid, together with any interest which may have accrued.
Page 207 - I would suggest, as one who has been bogged in this quagmire, that a successor in this chair might well devote himself to a review of the cosmical theories propounded within the last few years. The opportunities for piquant criticism would be splendid. Returning to the sure ground of experimental research let us for a moment contemplate what is betokened by this theory that in electro-magnetic engines we are using as our mechanism the ether, the medium that fills all known space. It was a great step...
Page 190 - I ventured to predict that unless some substantive improvement were made in the steamengine (of which improvement, as yet, we have no notion) I believed its. days, for small powers, were numbered, and that those who attended the Centenary of the British Association in 1931 would see the present...

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