Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, Vol. 32: Including Original Communications on Telegraphy and Electrical Science; 1902-1903
The collection of large currents at great speeds has long loomed as a limit. The published accounts of experiments at Zossen would lead us to suppose there is no trouble on this score. Still it is a difficulty many engineers fear.
In electric tramways there is no limit in sight. The power can be sent over any distance desired, and there seems to be no limit to the people who want to travel on electrical trams. The question of electrolysis is rather that of a limit to the duration of pipe companies' property. It is a very difficult question. Though the threatened effects of electrolysis have no doubt been exaggerated it is at best a question of degree, and the ingenuity of engineers is continually reducing the chance of damage. It has recently been urged that frequent reversals of polarity of the system reduces the electrolysis very considerably.
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