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Page 70 - ... or is not lighted to the satisfaction of the urban authority, such authority may, by notice addressed to the respective owners or occupiers of the premises fronting adjoining or abutting on such parts thereof as may require to...
Page 222 - Society be communicated to the President and Council of the Institution of Civil Engineers for having granted the Society free permission to hold its Meetings in the rooms of the Institution.
Page 70 - If such notice is not complied with, the urban authority may, if they think fit, execute the works mentioned or referred to therein...
Page 177 - The greatest element of safety is therefore the employment of skilled and experienced electricians to supervise the work. I. THE DYNAMO MACHINE. 1. The dynamo machine should be fixed in a dry place. 2. It should not be exposed to dust or flyings. 3. It should be kept perfectly clean and its bearings well oiled. 4. The insulation of its coils and conductors should be practically perfect.
Page 77 - Sinclair, admit, however, that, now that greatly improved jacks, as made in Stockholm, have been put into use, the trouble of the " make" and-break " in the test wire has been considerably lessened, and I believe that in future we shall return to the use of the two-way cords.
Page 78 - HAWDON seconded, a vote of thanks to the Chairman, which was carried by acclamation.
Page 44 - I have very great pleasure in moving a vote of thanks to the Chairman.
Page 178 - When these wires pass through roofs, floors, walls, or partitions, or where they cross or are liable to touch metallic masses, like iron girders or pipes, they should be thoroughly protected by suitable additional covering ; and where they are liable to abrasion from any cause, or to the depredations of rats or mice, they should be efficiently encased in some hard material.
Page 179 - The escape of electricity cannot be detected by the sense of smell, as can gas, but it can be detected by apparatus far more certain and delicate. Leakage not only means waste, but in the presence of moisture it means destruction of the conductor and its insulating covering by electric action.
Page 80 - ... that, having regard to the average expense of repairing highways in the neighbourhood, extraordinary expenses have been incurred by such authority in repairing such highway by reason of the damage caused by excessive weight passing along the same, or extraordinary traffic thereon...