THE DESIGN OF STATIC 

 TRANSFORMERS 



CHAl'TKU I 



IN nionucTORY 



A PAPER by Mr. George \Y<-tinu'hoiise, entitle. 1 " The 

 Railways," was read at a recent ! meeting of 

 tin- Institution anical I .nu'ineers. was 



'lloNvimj ,]>li : 



\s an illustration of the wonders of the laws of nature, 



itions >r <li>coveri s with which we are familiar can 



excel the static transformation of the electrical energy of 



alternating eimvnts of hiu'h jTo^urc in!. th-ir equiTftlent 



energy at a lo\\. r pressure. To lia\<- (li>c.>v r< .1 h.>w to make 



~> ..!' ni.-tal .-aj.al.l.- of transforming all 

 100 000 volts into currents of an\ r.-.|niivd 1- 

 ion with a loss of only a tritlr f th- . n rgy so tr. 



.oiild have lirni to achieve enduring fam. . I 

 tliis honour ai: will be teilS 



lit in his pap. r, Mr. \\ itioghott86 writes as 

 >ws : 



I was led in 1885, to inter. if in the Ann n 



utsofGa 



ng a system is of 



1 .lulv 1".' . 



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