Popular Science Monthly/Volume 24/February 1884/Under-Ground Wires
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Within the cities, pole strains have been thought-about objectionable, as a result of they disfigure the streets. Between cities, beneath-ground traces have been desired, due to their nice safety in case of invasion, great secrecy, and reliability in case of storms. At the first try the cable broke when only five miles had been paid out, and on a second attempt when some 380 miles had been accomplished ; and as this occurred in water two thousand fathoms deep, it was not possible to choose up the broken end ; the scheme was due to this fact abandoned, and the ships returned to Plymouth, where the cables were landed and overhauled ; through the winter further lengths were constructed to function a stand-by in case of mishaps, and appreciable enhancements had been made in the paying-out equipment. The results of this phenomenon is, that messages despatched over one wire are liable to be acquired on all of the opposite wires, and, in the case of the phone, this phenomenon is noticeable on cables one thousand toes long, and on a cable one mile long the events on one wire can easily understand what those on the opposite wires are saying.
The associated fee of one wire by itself is vastly bigger than the place many are run collectively, the cost of the pipe and for laying being not a lot higher for fifty wires than for one, and the cost of single wire cables being better per mile of wire than multiple wire cables, in order that the expense of putting such a system as considered one of our phone exchanges entirely below-ground would place the price of the devices completely out of attain of the subscribers. It must be remembered, however, that these numerous programs have price from ten to twenty times as much as comparable overhead strains; that, for each mile of below-floor wire, there are numerous miles on poles; and that in Paris, which is the one metropolis on this planet having a whole below-floor system, there are unusual facilities for the operating of wires, as sewers giant enough to walk about in extend even beneath the much less important streets of the town. In 1853 the Telegraph Company of England laid down a cable of ten gutta-percha-covered wires, in wooden troughs, alongside the high-street between London and Manchester, a distance of two hundred miles. While in the service of this firm he was employed in laying land telegraph strains of a very intensive character, including some 1000's of miles of underground wires between London, Manchester, and Liverpool and other centres; in connection with these land methods he laid a cable of six wires between Port Patrick and Donaghadee in Ireland; this was the third cable laid, and the primary in comparatively deep water.
During the identical year the Electric Telegraph Company laid down a considerably similar system between London, Manchester, and Liverpool, though iron and earthenware pipes were substituted for the picket troughs. The company was registered on 20 Oct. 1856, and among the many names of the directors appears that of Professor W. Thomson (Lord Kelvin). The pace of working even the abnormal instruments is restricted; critical hassle appears in attempting to use fast-working machines, or automatic senders, and the usage of the telephone is not possible. It appears probable that the one-part, high-voltage, alternating-present trolley shall be used and that for a while direct present will proceed to be used in terminals. Speaking usually for motors of equal weight, that of the direct-present system has 25 per cent, extra capability than that of the alternating-present system. In the case of locomotives the excess weight of the alternating-present tools is even larger. It appears possible that the subsequent step in this improvement would be the progressive equipment of an entire system involving by way of visitors over long distances, with its attendant feeder and branch strains. In London, the telegraph wires are carried from the central office to many of the branch workplaces and to the railways leading out of the town beneath-floor.
On this nation one of the best engineering opinion appears to have united in thinking that the one-section system is the one best tailored for future application to steam railways. As already stated, the tractive effort of the direct-present and single-phase motors falls off with rising speed, although not so rapidly as that of the steam locomotive. Taking a broad view of the scenario at current, we find that the direct-current system is already installed and continues to be favored for dense, brief-haul site visitors, resembling is found in city terminals and tunnels, and short suburban service. The nice bother with all of these programs, whether or not in England or on the Continent, was as a result of water, which found its way to the conductors, and of course destroyed the insulation. In England a really comparable line was constructed, alongside the line of the nice Western Railway, for a distance of thirteen miles out from the city of London. The first telegraph line constructed on this nation, from Baltimore to Washington, in 1843, was supposed to be laid underground, and the first nine miles was so laid. The route was particularly selected through a low and marshy section of country, so that the pipes have been almost constantly full of water-this being the very best condition for the preservation of the gutta-percha.
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