Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Protection of Railroads From Overhead Transmission Line Crossings
The rapid progress made in the development of high tension power transmission has given rise to a number of new problems which, though of secondary importance to that of transmission, are quite important to the electrical field as a whole. One of the most important of these is the problem of safeguarding persons and property from exposed transmission lines. It is coming to be regarded more and more that high-tension transmission lines are agencies of the most dangerous character and an increas ing amount of attention is being paid to the subject of protection at all places of hazardous exposure.
The general problem of protection is a broad one and naturally resolves itself into a number of typical cases. The protection of railroad property and the lives of rail road employees at overhead crossings of high-tension lines forms one of these cases and is the only typical case consid ered in this volume. The subject - matter was not prepared With the original intention of publication in book form, but was arranged for presentation before the Association of Railway Telegraph Superintendents at their annual meet ing of 1908.
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