Inspection and testing to the First Edition

[oracle]

Life was simple back in the day, raising a family and living in a shack. Then they invented electricity and people found life more exciting with a whole new way to die.

Electricity was and is dangerous and in May 1882 the first rules and regulations were made protecting people from shock, fire and death. Prophetically, these were called the First Editon.

They may have been old fashioned but they weren’t stupid, they knew by adding a few pages every couple of years they could change the number and charge more each time.

These first rules weren’t much, inspection involved the condition of “The Generator” and testing was probing circuits with electric currents. So how did they do this?.

Well, continuity was probably done with a bell and battery, nicked from a telephone, and insulation resistance with a hand cranked generator, also nicked from the telephone. After all these rules were for the Society of Telegraph Engineers and Electricians.

Live testing was probably by switching on to see if it worked, a practice that has persisted to today. So what do you think, were things really better in the olden days?

 

[static zap]

Returning to the first edition .
Twin core ,( probably both) wired fuses .
New fangled ,carbon filament incandescents .
For no messing/no sooty stains on wall ,lighting on demand.
(Tungsten filaments not patented till 1904)
----CAUTION-- source = Wiki==----
" Testing may be interesting depending on local supplier 'Earthing' arrangements"...speculation...

 

[oracle]

Returning to the first edition .
Twin core ,( probably both) wired fuses .
New fangled ,carbon filament incandescents .
For no messing/no sooty stains on wall ,lighting on demand.
(Tungsten filaments not patented till 1904)
----CAUTION-- source = Wiki==----
" Testing may be interesting depending on local supplier 'Earthing' arrangements"...speculation...

It was DC no earthing provided for years to come, long after AC was invented

 

[static zap]

My next thought was Billing , fixed charge /fuse capacity related?
( The did'nt do a mercury migration run-hrs timer as seen on yester years pcbs )

 

[oracle]

Oliver B. Shallenberger Invents the A.C. Watt-Hour Meter. On 14 August 1888 he received a patent for the watt-hour meter, a device that measured the amount of A.C. current and made possible the business model of the electric utility.

 

[Taylortwocities]

1st edition. I thought I had a copy somewhere....

 

[oracle]

So you did and I mistakenly referred to a generator which had not been invented yet, but having the 1st edition handy it's actually a dynamo referred to. See ,we all need to be on the same page!

 

[telectrix]

He was supposed to be in that day. Why did he put it off until the day after?

it's Pat. he's Irish.

 

[static zap]

A Dynamo , reference .
Leads me to a masochistic magician in a box in London.
--Must think magnets--! and commutators.

 

[oracle]

Well ,here's the first one

The Faraday disc generator

 

[static zap]

Well ,here's the first one
View attachment 46487 The Faraday disc generator

Once I mentioned commutator ,
(had an inkling a brushed disk would show up )
- plenty of current -but not much voltage- ?

 

[oracle]

You're offering objections to 100 year old tech? Without these pioneers we'd be hod carriers or worse

 

[static zap]

You're offering objections to 100 year old tech? ...

No objections .
(Lead acid cells are still about)

 

[Toneyz]

You're offering objections to 100 year old tech? Without these pioneers we'd be hod carriers or worse

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