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The effect of alternating current on the resistance and reactance of iron and steel wires

Creator:: Eckley, Winfield
Abstract:: During the past year the rapid increase in the cost of copper and aluminum has led operating companies to investigate the feasibility of using iron and steel conductors for transmission and distribution purposes where small blocks of power are to be served. This Thesis gives the results of tests on...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

The Load Characteristics of the Lebanon Power Plant

Creator:: Belknap, John Harrison, Morris, George Willis, and Jeppesen, Anders Marinus
Abstract:: The purpose of this thesis is the determination of the load characteristics of the Steam-Hyciro-Electric Plant owned and operated by the Lebanon Electric Power and Water Co. This corporation furnishes electrical energy for power and lighting service and also the water supply to the city of Lebanon, Oregon.
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

An Electrolysis Survey of a Small City

Creator:: Haller, Lorain Walter
Abstract:: Following the installation of a street car system, or for that matter, any other electric system, using the ground return, or the rail return which comes in contact with the ground, there is always more or less trouble experienced by water or gas companies, using metal pipe, due to the...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Indirect Illumination

Creator:: McMillan, Fred Orville and Smith, Hugh Isaac
Abstract:: The scope of this thesis consists primarily of an exposition upon the merits of indirect and. semi-indirect illumination. In deriving our conclusions, we have considered two sources of information: firstly, that of test data from a number of indirect and direct installations, and. secondly, the opinion of men familiar with...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

A Low Voltage Generator

Creator:: Day, Robert Clyde, Nelson, Ivar Emanuel, and Varner, William Roy, 1889-1967
Abstract:: This machine Is the first series arc machine installed In the city of Portland. It was obtained by the Electrical Department of O.A.C., with the object of rewinding it for a high current machine to be used in the charging of storage batteries.
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

The Economy and Advisability of Operating a Combined Power and Exhaust Heating Plant at the Oregon Agricultural College

Creator:: Cohen, Lesser Raphael Solis and Read, Lance
Abstract:: The question of whether to purchase power or to maintain an isolated plant is one which frequently confronts the engineer, and the problem is by no means easy of solution, as there are a number of factors which vary with individual cases and determine the economy and desirability of the...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

High Tension Transformer

Creator:: Olsen, Bernhard, 1836-1922 and McLean, Howard Elmer
Abstract:: In view of the fact that the college authorities have purchased a set of wireless apparatus, it was thought best to design and construct a transformer of suitable size for transforming the power to be used by this set of instruments. The power required for such a set is approximately...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Rectifiers

Creator:: Harris, Lee Marion and Du Moulin, Walter Wilbur
Abstract:: "There are at present four common methods of con verting the alternating current into direct current. These are in order of use, the motor generator set, the rotary converter, mercury vapor rectifier and the Murphy rectifier. A short description of these and connections for the last two will be given."--p.2
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Testing a 7.5 K.W. generator as a synchonous motor

Creator:: Gibson, Albert Porter and Pfandhoefer, Henry John
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

The Fixation of Atmospheric Nitrogen

Creator:: Fairchild, Jackson Kenelem
Abstract:: Much has been accomplished in the last few years toward the conservation of natural resources, and in this work the engineer has taken a leading part. The prevention of unnecessary waste, the utilization of hitherto useless by-products, and the economic production of the world's necessities are important features of this...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

High Current Transformer

Creator:: Carnegie, John Darwin and Borden, Roy
Abstract:: By reason of the fact that a thesis along the line of one's course or about some subject with which he is supposed to be familiar is required of every Senior electrical by the electrical department before his graduation, the following description of the design and construction of a 10...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Testing a Rotary Converter

Creator:: Gordon, Julius and Going, Wallace
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Performance Test of an Induction Motor

Creator:: Bowman, Harry David and Cady, Harry Palmer
Abstract:: The induction motor in its electromagnetic features is essentially a transformer, while in its general behavior it is analogous to the continuous-current shunt wound motor. In a transformer the primary and secondary members are both stationary and electrical energy is transformed from one pressure to another by the ratio of...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

The Design of an Induction Motor, Single Phase Double Current Generator Set

Creator:: Stutz, Lester Eugene and Pernot, Fred Eugene
Abstract:: Throughout the year the regular design work of the class room proved so profitable that it was thought that there was no subject which could be selected for thesis purposes of greater benefit,or which offered as great a latitude in the working out of the various problems, than the one...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Power plant design

Creator:: Propst, Horace Minor and Sorenson, Edgar Adolf
Abstract:: During the last five years the demand for electrical energy in the state of Oregon,and throughout the entire country,has increased to such an extent that electrical generating stations have become an important factor in the economic development of the common wealth. Uonsidering the great need for cheap power, which is...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

The Test of an Induction Motor Generator Set

Creator:: Plankinton, John C. and Gianella, Vincent Paul
Abstract:: This thesis comprises a series of tests run on a compound direct current generator and an induction motor; separately and combined as a set, with sheets of data; characteristic and efficiency curves and deduction drawn therefrom relative to the two machines.
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

The Design and Construction of a 5 K.W., D. C. generator

Creator:: Gilkey, Jesse Smart and Chapman, Alexander Kesterson
Abstract:: Since this treatise is to deal only with the construction of one special machine it is unnecessary to go into an extended discussion of dynamo electric machinery in general. Some of the parts common to all electric machinery of this character will be mentioned and then a short account of...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Design, Construction, Operation and Uses of a 110,000 Volt Testing Transformer

Creator:: McLagan, Wayne Carl and Vines, John Oscar
Abstract:: Samples of insulating materials used in the construction of electrical machinery and apparatus are tested for dielectric strength before such are accepted for use. This is done by applying to the sample a high voltage until it is pierced through by the electric spark. This is a parallel case to...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

The Design of Hydro-Electric Power Station and Distribution System

Creator:: Powell, Joel William and Booth, Latimer Hobart
Abstract:: The marked movement of utilizing Oregon's water power in the service of generating electric current, has been promoted by the economics in transmission of electricity to distances both great and small; by the harnessing of industrial implements to electric power; and by the advancement and extension of interurban railways. It...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Design of a Standard Speed, Revolving Field Type, Three Phase Alternator

Creator:: Williams, Floyd J. (Floyd James), 1920- and Rawson, Roy Eugene
Abstract:: The designing of electrical machinery is fully as essential to the thorough understanding of power equipment and apparatus, as is the taking of a laboratory testing course. One learns the relationship of the different parts, the methods of computing their dimensions, and the predetermination of outputs, efficiencies, etc. and thus...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

The Testing of an Alternator

Creator:: Fleser, Russell Harrison and Billings, Everett Monroe
Abstract:: "Before a company which manufactures electrical machines allow them to leave the factory, each must undergo certain tests to make sure that there are no faults of design or workmanship and also ofttimes that they meet the specifications of the buyer. Four important tests are made, e.g. (1) no load...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Tests Made on Direct Current Side of a Double Current Generator

Creator:: Soi, Mulk Raj and Hull, Charles Darwin
Abstract:: In long distance transmission where it is impossible to transmit a direct current for electric rail roading and for many other applications on a very low voltage percent line loss, it is essential to transmit the power by means of an alternating current at high pressure and then reduce its...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Testing of a Direct Current Machine

Creator:: Taggart, Durland Orville and McColl, Nelson Felde
Abstract:: Living now in an age where the steam engine in many localities soon will be a mere relic more than a useful mechanism with which to convert steam into useful energy. It is rapidly being replaced by the gas engine and the electric generator, in which the latter is thought...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Hydro-Electric Power Plant

Creator:: Worstell, Ralph and Zimmerman, Henry Roderick
Abstract:: The data used in the design of this hydro-electric generating station was furnished by Hon. Walter M. Pierce from a survey conducted by T. R. Barry C. E. in the service of the Grande Ronde Water Co. during the summer of 1906. In the preparation of this thesis there were...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Transformers

Creator:: Sutton, William Dantzler and Beaty, Jesse James
Abstract:: The financial success or failure of a lighting or power enterprise is measured by the efficiency of the machinery, and the efficiency of the machinery depends upon that of each piece of apparatus of which it is composed. In alternating current distribution the transformers are frequently scattered in large numbers...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

A proposed hydro-electric plant including its high-tension transmission and distribution systems

Creator:: Bendshadler, Charles F. and Bendshadler, George Henry
Abstract:: The proposed hydraulic power plant, incorporated under the name of, "Minem Light and Power Company", is located on the Minam River, about two miles above the junction of the Minam and Wallowa Rivers. This is about three miles above the county highway bridge which is on the Wallow River, this...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

The Design of an Electric-Driven Saw Mill

Creator:: Autzen, Thomas and Smith, N. T.
Abstract:: The electric motor has for an number of years occupied an important position in the operation of wood-working machinery, of moderate capacity, for example the planing mills, sash and door factories and many of the other similar wood working shops. However its adoption in the more trying field of saw...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Electric plants for private homes

Creator:: Donelson, Earl Irvington
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Construction and Operation of a Direct Current Compound Wound Generator

Creator:: Crowe, Elmer Raymond and Howard, Charles Harry
Abstract:: Electricity is the name given to an invisible agent known to us only by its attendant phenomena and by various manifestations called electrical. These manifestations, at first obscure and even mysterious, are now well understood. Indeed its great importance to mankind can only be realized when we remember that it...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

The Induction Motor and Performance Test

Creator:: Buchanan, Elmer Clarence and Smith, Arthur Byron
Abstract:: The following discussion is confined mostly to that type of machine in which the squirrel care revolving secondary it used. In its most primitive form it con - listed simply of a disk- aramature as described by Baily in 1870 and due to Tesla (1888), of the fact that two,...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Tests of a Direct Current Generator

Creator:: Leonard, Charles Herbert and Harris, Charles Sinclair
Abstract:: It is necessary before placing any piece of apparatus on the market to thoroughly test it under similar conditions to that for which it was designed, and to rate it accordingly to the results of the tests, allow a reasonable margin for unusual conditions. By the aid of our technical...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

The Theory and Operation of the Synchronous Motor

Creator:: Groth, Bernard John and Cross, George Albert
Abstract:: The study, design, construction, operation and care or synchronous machines forms one of the most important branches of electrical engineering. The extent to which they are now being used is a notable feature of recent electric progress. The term synchronous machines covers quite a field and it might be well...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

O.A.C. Campus Lighting Design

Creator:: Wright, David Alvis and Davolt, Claud
Abstract:: "Since the present power and heating plant was installed the number of buildings has increased so rapidly that the present equipment is unable to supply the necessary power for the proposed electrical and mechanical laboratories. In this design it is assumed that Waldo and Cauthorn halls are to be heated...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

The theory, design, and construction of a 5 k.w., 125 volt, compounded, direct current generator

Creator:: Wiggen, Eugene Cyrus and Baker, Walter Rawalt
Abstract:: It has been a standing problem among the scientists of the past and will perhaps be puzzled-over for many centuries to come; namely the most efficient method of transmitting power from one point to another. The nearest solution at present, and a very satisfactory one, is electricity. By means of...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

The Design of an Hydro-Electric Power System

Creator:: Wall, Rupert and Sleight, Thomas Roy
Abstract:: A feasible development for a Hydro-Electric power plant can be found in the Mary's River. About 9 miles west of Corvallis, the north fork of the stream affords an excellent situation for a dam site. The canon of the north fork at this point is very narrow, and having good...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

The Induction Motor

Creator:: Taber, Howard Weston and Spires, Fred Lloyd
Abstract:: The problem of the economical transmission of power has long been a serious one to the engineer. Formerly the power had to be generated on or near the spot where it was to be used, but now the advance that has been made in Electrical Engineering has largely done away...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Design and installation of a switchboard for the Engineering laboratory

Creator:: Chambers, Lincoln Beaumont and Wood, Walter Ernest
Abstract:: See thesis for abstract.
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Theory and Construction of an Induction Motor

Creator:: Chapin, Norris Everard and Christiansen, Clarence Lewis
Abstract:: In order that the proper motor for a given service may be chosen it becomes necessary to study and know the requirements and characteristics of the machine which may be used for that purpose. When these are known the selection of that one which is best adapted for the use...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

The Design, Construction, and Testing of a Revolving Field, Three Phase Alternator

Creator:: Brown, Sherman Asher and Thayer, Edward Sprague
Abstract:: By way of preface, a few words may be said regarding the advantages of the revolving field type of machine. The first in its favor and the chief reason for its existence, is that by passing the heavy armature current through permanent stationary contacts and only the small field current...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

The design of a 1000 k.w. hydro electric power plant

Creator:: McNeill, Ralph Waldo and Stebinger, Carl Marion
Abstract:: One of the most important and likewise practical problems that oonfront the Electrioal Engineers of the present daysis the design and the construotion of Hydro Electrio Power plants for the generating of electrioal energy,both for power and li;hting purposes. In order that we might become better acquainted with the facts...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Theory and Construction of a Rotary Converter

Creator:: Hinrichs, Max A., Spicer, Roger, and Witzig, Alva Asa
Abstract:: See thesis for abstract.
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Accumulators or, Secondary batteries

Creator:: Beaty, Edward Benjamin and Paulson, Joseph
Abstract:: A storage battery is a cell. or a series of cells capable of storing up electric energy and giving it off at a required time. A storage battery acts upon the same principle as a galvanic cell in giving forth electric current as the equivalent of chemical energy, but it...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

The Electrical Equipment of an Ocean-Going Vessel

Creator:: Groves, Del Roy and Barnett, Arthur Rex
Abstract:: The rapid advancement of electrical science has led it to invade the field of marine engineering. On ship-board, all ship's lights, search lights and signal lights are entirely electric. Of power appliances outside of uses on men of war,ship's ventilation is completely electric; electric deck winches and boat cranes are...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

The design and construction of a 1500 watt electric motor

Creator:: Alspaugh, Augustus Marshall
Abstract:: Electromagnetic engines, or motors, are machines in which the motive power is derived from electric currents by means of their electromagnetic action. The following design is for a 1½ K.W. bi-polar motor.
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Calculations for dimensions of flywheel for laboratory motor generator set

Creator:: Haller, Lorain Walter
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

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