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  • Arc Lamps,
  • —— places where suitable, 10.
  • —— charges for, 10.
  • —— at Milan, 47.
  • Accumulators,
  • —— at Kensington Court, 69.
  • —— at Vienna, 76.
  • Birmingham wire gauge resistance table, 105.
  • —— in French measurements, 106.
  • Central-stations,
  • —— Siemens’ suggestion for, 1.
  • —— at Philadelphia, 2.
  • —— block, 3.
  • —— construction, 3.
  • —— selection of district for, 4.
  • —— relation between daily output and capacity, 7.
  • —— loss in, 15.
  • —— at Deptford, 31.
  • —— at Eastbourne, 31.
  • —— at Brighton, 32.
  • —— at Tours, 32.
  • —— at Vienna, 76.
  • —— position of, 16.
  • —— in United States, 17.
  • —— at Grosvenor Gallery, 27.
  • —— Kensington Court, 20, 68.
  • —— methods of lighting from, 20.
  • —— tables showing cost of, 86, 87.
  • Cost of gas compared with electricity, 8.
  • Cost of kerosene, 9.
  • Cost of arc lighting, 10.
  • Conductors,
  • —— relative size of, for different systems, 22.
  • —— arrangement of, at Grosvenor Gallery, 28.
  • —— primary conductors at Grosvenor Gallery, 30.
  • —— diagram of network system of, at Milan, 46.
  • —— diagram of multiple series system at Temesvar, 60.
  • —— conduits for, in New York, 92, 93, 94.
  • Distribution of Electricity,
  • —— Edison parallel system, 41.
  • —— Edison feeders, 42.
  • —— three-wire system, 43.
  • —— series system, 52.
  • —— Bernstein system, 57.
  • —— multiple series system, 58.
  • —— by means of secondary batteries, 65.
  • —— system of, at Kensington Court, 69.
  • Dynamotors, 79.
  • —— Swinburne’s Compound, 83.
  • Electric Lighting,
  • —— as an investment, 3, 9, 97.
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    Footnotes:

    [1] Unit; see page 7.

    [2] See Table IV., page 87.

    [3] 1000 watts.

    [4] Hedges on the Supply of Electricity by Local Authorities. Proceedings of Association of Municipal and Sanitary Engineers and Surveyors, vol. ix. (1882-83), p. 159.

    [5] From Industries.

    [6] Kilowatt equals 1,000 watts.

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