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A tiny model farm built for lightning research and power line tests, June 1950.
Photograph by Westinghouse Electric Corp.
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An advert in the London & North Eastern Railway's "Ports book" for 1935 showing a turbo-alternator generating set manufactured by the Newcastle - Upon _ tyme based engineering company C.A. Parsons & Co. Ltd. but also flagging the fact that the LNER had moved this kit by rail and road from Parsons works to Brighton in Sussex.
Parsons were, of course, famous for their founder's development of the steam turbine and the company was formed in 1889 to manufacture machines that found use in electrical generation. The County Borough of Brighton's Electricity Department began supplying consumers in 1891 from a small generating station in North Road, although they were not the first. Indeed in 1894 they acquired the rival Brighton & Hove Electric Light Company whose story dated back to 1882 when they initiated what is claimed to be the world's first continuous supply of electricity.
In 1908 a new, replacement generating station was opened at Southwick known as Shoreham "A" station and this continued in use with various additions and alterations until 1976. It was adjacent to the "A" station that the larger and local landmark Shoreham "B" station was in operation from 1952 until the mid-1980s. I wonder where this image, of the stator on a remarkable road vehicle of the LNER, was taken? It looks like a railway yard given the coal merchants hut. I am suspecting that it is being driven out of the at the west side of the now lost Goods Yard at Hove station as the houses in the background do seem to resemble those on Sackville Road at the junction of Poynter Road.
Subject: Miller, Oskar von 1855-1934
Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin
National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
Type: Black-and-white photographs
Topic: Electrical engineering
Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2010-0454]
Summary: Unidentified woman. In other images she appears to be standing in front of the National Academy of Sciences building in Washington, D.C. with electrical engineer and Deutsches Technical Museum founder Oskar Von Miller (1855-1934). Miller visited the United States in 1929.
Cite as: Acc. 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, Smithsonian Institution Archives
Persistent URL:Link to data base record
Repository:Smithsonian Institution Archives
Office Building of Tungabhadra Dam. The Tungabhadra Dam was a joint venture by erstwhile Hyderabad State & Madras Presidency. The Chief Architect was Dr. Thirumala Iyengar from Madras.
Single-phase pole-mounted transformer, 11kV to 240V. 'Drop-out' fuse-switches on 11kV side. Note the arcing horns across the transformer HV terminal insulators and the oil-level gauge-glass behind the LH lifting lug.
Manufactured by SWS (South Wales Switchgear Ltd.).
On Explore/Flickr Top 500, May 8, 2009
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Got into this train at the city-island of Venice... got delayed in Bologna... went underground for kilometers crossing the Italian mountain range... and now, finally, in Florence(Firenze).
S.M. Novella Train Station
Florence, Italy
In August 2014, the ESB (Electricity Supply Board) held an open day for the public at Turlough Hill hydroelectricity station in County Wicklow to celebrate the 40th anniversary of its construction. Here's the main station area, in a cavern deep under the hill.
More information: www.esb.ie/main/education/Turlough-Hill-40-years.jsp
Aaron Friesz (major: electrical engineering systems) takes a break while reading the Daily Trojan. Photo by: Philip Channing
Detail of the porcelain insulator chains, flashover gaps and Stockbridge dampers (shock-absorbers).
Pentax MX, 135mm lens, 100ASA film.
High-power components in the smoothing enclosure of the recently de-commissioned Sender 61 at Skelton. A high-level modulated device, the HT to the RF valve anodes was augmented and detracted by the HT at the secondary of the modulation transformer (not shown), in accordance with the level of programme applied to the primary via the modulator valves.
Note the silica-gel desiccant breather on the speech reactor, the 'Metrosil' surge-diverters on the 3-phase secondary terminals of the rectifier transformer, and the conservator tanks - with gauge-glasses - and Buchholz protection relays beneath. A CO2 fire-quenching horn can just be made out at the top of the picture.
A view of the Electrical Engineering Building, which later became the Computer Center. On the back: "Elect. Engineering."
1949
Subjects
Michigan State University – Buildings -- Electrical Engineering
Michigan State University – Buildings -- Computer Center
Repository: Michigan State University Archives & Historical Collections, 101 Conrad Hall, East Lansing, MI 48824, http://archives.msu.edu
Resource Identifier: A001288.jpg
Sto conducendo una ricerca sulla costruzione di due piccole stazioni elettriche irlandesi negli anni '50 e sarei molto grato di qualsiasi contributo potessi ricevere dai suoi lettori.
Le stazioni si trovavano nella Contea di Donegal, in Irlanda, e furono commissionate dall'Irish Electricity Supply Board (E.S.B.) tra il 1954 e il 1958. La prima era la stazione dello Schema idroelettrico di Clady da 4MW e la seconda era la stazione della turbina a vapore a torba di Meenacung.
L'appaltatore di ingegneria civile principale per lo schema di Clady era Malachy Burke Construction di Galway. Alcune delle opere in subappalto furono realizzate dalle seguenti società: (a) Costruzioni Mecchaniche Riva S.p.A.; (b) Ercole Marelli & C., S.p.A.; (c) Magrini, S.p.A.
Gli appaltatori per la stazione a torba erano Brown Boveri e Walther.
I dipendenti della società si recarono a Donegal per installare le attrezzature di test, lavorarono a fianco di operatori locali, tra cui mio padre e furono alloggiati nelle guesthouse locali.
Se Lei ha avuto un ruolo in questi progetti a qualsiasi titolo, mi piacerebbe ascoltare la sua storia.
Mi interesserebbe inoltre vedere le fotografie contemporanee e i documenti personali come ad esempio contratti di impiego, buste paga, lettere o ricevute, insomma qualsiasi cosa possa apportare informazioni su come era la vita in quella che all'epoca era un'area molto isolata e remota. Naturalmente, qualsiasi cosa mi venga consegnata sarà trattata con la massima cura e restituita intatta ai legittimi proprietari.
Posso essere contattato per posta all'indirizzo indicato di seguito o via email al seguente indirizzo: senod@eircom.net
Distinti saluti.
Seán Ó Domhnaill.
The new fiber-coupled monocentric lens camera (left) next to the much larger Canon 8-15 mm fisheye lens, used for conventional wide-angle imaging.
Yes! I am back. Cameras, flickr and pixel pushing are once again on the horizon.
Unmentionable monster project is not by any means finished but the huge hardware blocks that have my name all over them are now being fabricated and assembled -- no more 3 AM marathon sessions with the fine products from Cadence--although I have to say thumbs up to Cadence, this would have been an excruciating exercise using less capable CAD tools.
The bits and pieces of schematics and printed circuit boards are indeed my own work; suitably scrambled and obscured so that no one could possibly tell what in the world this thing is supposed to do!
Now, I have a few photostreams to catch up on, not to mention emails and everything else I let slide for the last several weeks....looking forward to trapping photons again :)
A booklet giving details of the extension to the Kearsley Generating Station of the Lancashire Electric Power Company that was formally inaugurated by the Rt. Hon. The Earl of Derby on 21 December 1936. It gives details of the history of the company and its generating stations that were situated at Radcliffe, Padiham and Kearsley.
The LEP Co. was formed in 1900 with generation and supply powers to a large area of Lancashire south of the River Ribble. Its first station was opened at Radcliffe, on the River Irwell, on 9 October 1905. The company was required to develop a large system of distribution mains and cables to serve its area of supply. During WW1, to help cope with the demand for electricity from industry, the LEP entered into a coordination scheme with two of the municipal undertakings that had at first opposed the company's powers; Manchester and Salford. These inter-connections across Lancashire pre-dated the schemes that were developed with Government backing from the 1920s onwards that were to make bulk supply of electricity a more effective arrangement and to the development of the National Grid. The company's second generating station, at Padiham, opened in 1926 and this was followed in 1929 by the first stages of the station at Kearsley, again on the Irwell and just north of Salford's Agecroft station. These can be seen in the maps included in the booklet.
The booklet gives details of the extension at Kearsley that were undertaken to the requirements of the Central Electricity Board that was helping to undertake a standardisation across the British electricity industry and promoting better efficiency in the generation field. As part of the CEB's schemes all three of the LEP's stations were "selected" and they frequently held records for thermal efficiency. It gives details of the equipment including the new turbo-generators by the British Thomson-Houston Co. Ltd and the associated works.
The LEP would be Nationalised in 1948, the three generating stations passing to the British Electricity Authority, latterly the CEGB, and the distribution and supply network to the North Western Electricity Board. Radcliffe was closed in 1959, Padiham "A" in 1969 although the Padiham "B" station opened in 1959 survived until 1993, and Kearsley was decommissioned in 1981.
Students in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science work on a lab project to build a light-tracking "pet robot" in 6.01.
Photo: Dominick Reuter
A booklet giving details of the extension to the Kearsley Generating Station of the Lancashire Electric Power Company that was formally inaugurated by the Rt. Hon. The Earl of Derby on 21 December 1936. It gives details of the history of the company and its generating stations that were situated at Radcliffe, Padiham and Kearsley.
The LEP Co. was formed in 1900 with generation and supply powers to a large area of Lancashire south of the River Ribble. Its first station was opened at Radcliffe, on the River Irwell, on 9 October 1905. The company was required to develop a large system of distribution mains and cables to serve its area of supply. During WW1, to help cope with the demand for electricity from industry, the LEP entered into a coordination scheme with two of the municipal undertakings that had at first opposed the company's powers; Manchester and Salford. These inter-connections across Lancashire pre-dated the schemes that were developed with Government backing from the 1920s onwards that were to make bulk supply of electricity a more effective arrangement and to the development of the National Grid. The company's second generating station, at Padiham, opened in 1926 and this was followed in 1929 by the first stages of the station at Kearsley, again on the Irwell and just north of Salford's Agecroft station. These can be seen in the maps included in the booklet.
The booklet gives details of the extension at Kearsley that were undertaken to the requirements of the Central Electricity Board that was helping to undertake a standardisation across the British electricity industry and promoting better efficiency in the generation field. As part of the CEB's schemes all three of the LEP's stations were "selected" and they frequently held records for thermal efficiency. It gives details of the equipment including the new turbo-generators by the British Thomson-Houston Co. Ltd and the associated works.
The LEP would be Nationalised in 1948, the three generating stations passing to the British Electricity Authority, latterly the CEGB, and the distribution and supply network to the North Western Electricity Board. Radcliffe was closed in 1959, Padiham "A" in 1969 although the Padiham "B" station opened in 1959 survived until 1993, and Kearsley was decommissioned in 1981.
B2B (Bunks 2 Buildings). This year, the Oregon National Guard re-built a pump house, greenhouse, and other buildings for the Horning Seed Orchard. This work helped them complete their required Annual Training (AT). More than 30 members of the Vertical Engineering Unit worked alongside journey-level engineers, plumbers, and electricians to gain valuable skills that they will use on an upcoming deployment.