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Re: Mercury Vacuum Rectifiers -- A History




From: 	Charles Brush[SMTP:cfbrush-at-interport-dot-net]
Sent: 	Monday, September 08, 1997 5:56 AM
To: 	Tesla List
Subject: 	Re: Mercury Vacuum Rectifiers -- A History

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>From: 	Richard Wayne Wall[SMTP:rwall-at-ix-dot-netcom-dot-com]
>
>Magnetite
>arc lamps had one draw back though.  They required direct current in an
>America that was well on its way to electrification with alternating
>current.  Steinmetz used brush generators to power his street lamps
>with DC.


That's "Brush" generators.  :-)  Very intertesting post!


Charles F. Brush
http://www.foundrygroup-dot-com/cbrush