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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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high pressure at .1 central station, says Engineering, ofLondon, from which we have reproduced the illustrations.It is then admitted into the mains 15 placed beneath the Nugent tramways, which have 8)^ miles of tracks.Nine lields are at the present time being developed in theapplication of compressed air: distribution of power inquantities varying from the minute time pulses to motorsof 150 horse power, ventilation and other sanitary pur-poses; refrigerators especially for the preservation ofmeat; manufacture of ice as a by-product of com-pressed air used as a motive power; elevating water andother liquids; emptying cesspools; passenger and lug-gage elevators; pneumatic clocks. There are 798 indus-trial establishments that are using compressed air forpower; many workshops operating their old steamengines, the boilers being utilized as reservoirs in whichthe air is heated before passing to the cylinders.
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DDDDDD,, THE CONTI COMPKESSKD AIK SYSTEM. — FlCi. I. rails (Figs, i and 2). Branches C lead the air nearly tothe siu-face into automatic devices by which the carreservoirs can be charged. The distance between thecharging stations varies according to circumstances, butfor convenience stations should be located at recognizedstopping places. An iron box is sunk into the roadway to enclose themechanism. It is covered bj- a plate containing twohinged Haps, F, placed immediately over the air nozzle,E. This nozzle is the continuation of a plunger workingin the cylinder E, which can be placed in connectionwith the air main. As the front truck of the car passesover the rails it strikes the lever G, and, depressing it,opens a valve that admits air beneath the plunger E,raises it and causes the air nozzle to push open the flapsF and rise above the level of the road. By the lime ithas reached its full height, the nozzle makes connectionat C, communicating with reservoir D in the car. Avalve is

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