The Standard Fire Policy: Lectures Before the Fire Insurance Club of Chicago (Classic Reprint)Excerpt from The Standard Fire Policy: Lectures Before the Fire Insurance Club of Chicago In this case a fire occurred in the wire tower through which the wires for electric lights were carried from the building. This fire caused a short circuit, and the short circuit resulted in keeping back or bringing into the dynamo below an increase of electric current, that made it more difficult for the armature to revolve than before, and caused a higher power to be exerted upon it; that this was transmitted to the pulley by which this armature was run through a belt. The 'shock destroyed that pul ley, and by the destruction of that pulley the main shaft was disturbed, and the succeeding pulleys, up to the jack pulley, were ruptured. By reason of pieces flying from the jack pulley, or from some other cause, the flywheel of the engine was destroyed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. |