[N104059A], Technical Note, Francis Jehl, August 21st, 1880

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Title

[N104059A], Technical Note, Francis Jehl, August 21st, 1880

Editor's Notes

Tested 25 and 18 wire sections of Carman's circuit. After fixing short in lamp post, wires @ 214.5 [2145?] ohms. "This cable is wrapped once with muslin tarred, wound with marlin covered with hard coal tar boiled with crude coal tar, half & half." [`marlin' is "small, usually tarred line of two strands twisted losely left-handed that is used esp for seizing and as a covering for wire rope.']

URL

https://edisondigital.rutgers.edu/document/N104059A

Author

Jehl, Francis

Date

1880-08-21

Decade

1880-1889

Type

Technical Note

Subject

Cables, feeders, and other exterior elements

Identifier

N104059A

Folder Set

N104-F

Microfilm ID

36:296

Rights

Thomas Edison National Historical Park

Publisher

Thomas A. Edison Papers, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University

Item sets

Notebook #104 N-80-07-05 (1880-1881)