The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-05-27

Oh the tnaussrsy from GhzrAotte1hurg
70 the snzndauer Book, IN the west
err ousskirts Of Berlin. The electrE
oian has IN this line solved the prob
lem Of making the electric car over
come 3 rising gradient ef ! 70 90
For half mile the linz has Oh lesy.
! ing The snburd Of Chariottenburg to
ascend hill, and here the speed was
( maintained az ten 70 twelve kilo-
metres, OK about seven miles an hoax,
Once on the top Of the sPandaneT
Berg the line is On . level and here
| tho cars attained speed Of between
sixteen and twenty kilometres, on an
average Of eleven miles an hOur. The
line. conducted as an ordinary tram
way, is distinguished from any other
1 bT two thin wire cables, which Won
perceive At 2 certain elevation above
It, resting On telegraph poles On
1 these two isolated cables, which are
about nine inches apart, 8 tiny car
/ rage runs, carried by eight wheels.
those Oh the right being isolated
/ from those on the left A thin cable
uuites tlais miniature machine with
/ the passenger car below, and the
/ two wires IL contains transmit cleo
tricfty from tine two cables above TO
the dynamo, which is fixed 10 the
bottom Of the car. On the top Of the
bill is . small house, where the steam
engine is situated which generates
the eiectao-motive fOree.
In the Erst electric railway, pro
duoed By DR.. Werner Siemens at the
Berlin Industrial Exhibition in the
summer of the gear 1879, the current
was conveyed into the car by means
Of the rails and wheels, going from
one rail into one set Of wheels and
out again on the opposite side from
the wheels into the other rail. The
system is in use on the short line
that connects the Royal School Of
Cadets at Lichterfelds with the rail-
way terminus. Besides the incon-
yenience this arrangement offered ia
the difficulty Of keeping up the Deces-
sary insulation Of the rails, constant
Iy threatened by mud and dust, this
system was particularly troublesome
to the horses, whose hOofs, in cross
ing the rails, came in contact with
the electric current, thus inficting
on the animals an unpleasant shock.
At the electric exhibition in Paris
DR.. Siemens conducted the current
through tubes, but his new invention
of small contact-car, running on
two suspended cables and dragged
along by the passenger car, to which
it is attached, seems to be decided
improvement, and Berlin electricians
assert that the problem of adapting
electricity to tramways is now solved.
The two cars employed to-day were
not Joined together, but each went
separately. In future it is intended
that two cars shall always leave the
terminal stations at the same time,
80 as meet halfway, where there is
a siding. The stationary steam en-
CINE has TO work at the rate eff SO
horse power, in order to produce the
necessary force Of about @ horse
power for each Of the two cars when
ascending the hill. / shall not en-
large on several experiments which
were made to test the facility Of driy-
ing the cars backwards and forwards
and connecting the two cars, but
limit myself to mentioning that, after
lunch, the invited guests proceeded
to Wilmersdorf TO inspect an electric
conveyance which runs OBJ the high
road without rails.
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