We have here the development of current distribution by means of transformers, as it completed itself in Europe. The American electricians however, made the matter somewhat easier. They quietly waited until the invention gave useful results in Europe, and then simply imported it.
The field to-day belongs to the parallel method of connection, and after the installation in the alkali works at Aschersleben was destroyed by flooding, there only remains a single installation with series connection, as far as we know; this is that which was fitted up in Tivoli near Rome in the year 1886. This installation however, serves only to feed an invariable number of street-lamps, and can therefore have no claim to the designation of an installation for the distribution of electric currents by means of transformers.
LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED,
STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.
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