FITTER 



Fitter. Term used in engineer- 

 ing to designate the workman who 

 assembles parts of machinery, and 

 makes them fit. The work is highly 

 skilled. The term is also applied in 

 tailoring to one who takes measure- 

 ments, tries on and adjusts gar- 

 ments. See Engineering. 



Fittings, ELECTRIC. Accessory 

 to a principal electrical apparatus. 

 Thus, an electrical glow lamp is not 

 a fitting ; but the holder into which 

 the lamp fits, the wall plug or the 

 ceiling rose with which it is con- 

 nected, and the switch by means of 

 which the light is turned on or off, 

 are all fittings. The number of 

 classes in which electrical fittings 

 may be ranged is not very large; they 

 are chiefly switches, wall plugs, 

 ceiling roses, adapters or connec- 

 tors such as are used to connect a 

 lampholder to a fan or to a flat 

 iron, cut-outs, junction boxes, 

 lampholders, and shade carriers : 

 all in an almost infinite variety 



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Thus, under switches we have 

 distribution boards or panels 

 which are simply collections of 

 switches, suspension, bracket, bolt, 

 plate, and rotary switches ; while 

 the scale on which switches are 

 used extends from the simple 

 button which puts on or off a single 

 glow lamp to the elaborate switch- 

 board structure, which may occupy 

 some hundreds of square feet, by 

 which the current supplies from a 

 great power station are controlled. 

 Again, the ordinary glow lamp 

 holder, which is essentially a 

 socket provided with a bayonet 

 joint in which the end of the lamp 

 engages, may also be provided with 

 a switch to put the light on or off, 

 and this switch may be a push-bar, 

 rotary, or chain-pull ; or it may 

 have a locking device which en- 

 sures that once the lamp is in place 

 and locked it cannot be removed, 

 or it cannot be turned off or on, 

 without the authority of the person 



FITZCLARENCE 



who holds the key. Other forms 

 as used in mines and on board ship 

 are specially adapted to resist vi- 

 bration. See Lighting, Electric. 



Fitz (Lat. filius ; Fr. fils). Old 

 Anglo-Norman word formerly spelt 

 fiz and meaning son. Like Scots 

 Mac, Irish 0', and Welsh ab, ap, 

 it is prefixed to proper names 

 to show parentage. Familiar ex- 

 amples are Fitzalan, Fitzgerald, 

 and Fitzwilliam. It is specially 

 used to indicate natural sons of 

 royal blood, e.g. Fitzjames, duke of 

 Berwick, son of James II. 



Fitzclarence, CHARLES (1865- 

 1914). British soldier. Born May 8, 

 1865, a son of the earl of Munster, 

 he was educated at Eton and Wel- 

 lington. He joined the Royal Fusi- 

 liers in 1886, and the Irish Guards 

 in 1900. He served in S. Africa 

 1899-1900, in which campaign he 

 won the V.C. He went to France 

 in Aug., 1914, and commanded the 

 1st Guards brigade at the first 



Fittings Examples oi fittings for electric lights. 1. 7-lamp electrolier. 2. Inverted pendant for reflected light. 

 * Adam stvle electrolier. 4. 6-lamp electrolier for billiard table. 5. Switch designed in Adam style. 6. Standard desk 



lamps. 7. Electric lantern for public streets 



By courtesy of General Electric Company 



