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Torpedo Manual for H.M. Fleet Vol. I. 1911

Torpedo Manual for His Majesty's Fleet

Volume I

Electricity and Magnetism, Electric Lighting and Machinery

1911

 

Repository
Document ID
Pages
Dimensions
Plates
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404 including index

15cm x 24cm
92

My copy of this document is an un-numbered original.  The nature of the volume is essentially a text on the properties of electricity and electrical phenomena followed by progressively more applied material discussing specific equipment currently in use in the fleet.

The promulgation note bears a date of April 3rd, 1911 and indicates that "The 1907 edition of this book is to be considered cancelled."

GENERAL CONTENTS
 
PAGE
Chapter
I.
--
 Elementary Theory
1
  
"
II.
--
 Elementary Theory
22
  
"
III.
--
 Elementary Theory
38
  
"
IV.
--
 Primary Batteries
59
  
"
V.
--
 Measuring Instruments
67
  
"
VI.
--
 Theory of Dynamo
73
  
"
VII.
--
 Theory of Dynamo
87
  
"
VIII.
--
 Armature Windings
105
  
"
IX.
--
 Switchboards and Parallel Running
118
  
"
X.
--
 Motors
133
  
"
XI.
--
 Service Motors and Controllers
146
  
"
XII.
--
 Service Machines and their Management
161
  
"
XIII.
--
 Search and Arc Lights
184
  
"
XIV.
--
 Searchlights
204
  
"
XV.
--
 Incandescent Lighting
227
  
"
XVI.
--
 Management of Circuits and Temporary Lighting
251
  
"
XVII.
--
 Secondary Batteries
262
  
"
XVIII.
--
 Bells
274
  
"
XIX.
--
 Telephones and Navyphones
282
  
"
XX.
--
 Dial Instruments
300
  
"
XXI.
--
 Telegraphy
313
  
"
XXII.
--
 Electrical Measurements
330
  
"
XXIII.
--
 Alternating Current
361
  
Appendix
I.
--
 Various Insulators and their Uses
381
  
"
II.
--
 Constants and Electrical Properties of various Substances
383
  
"
III.
--
 Approximate Fuzing Currents of Wires
384
  
"
IV.
--
 Wire Gauges
385
  
"
V.
--
 Details relating to Electric Cables used in H.M. Navy
388
  
"
VI.
--
 Units
392
  
INDEX
395
  

LIST OF PLATES

Number of Plate
Subject
Page
I.
  
Delafon and Menotti cells
59
  
II.
  
Fuller and Leclanché cells
62
  
III.
   Battery boxes
65
  
IV.
   20 ohm galvanometer
67
  
V.
   1000 ohm galvanometer
67
  
VI.
  
Evershed's combined testing set
70
  
VII.
  
Cell tester
71
  
VIII.
  
Theory of dynamo
73
  
IX.
  
Position of brushes on commutator
98
  
X.
   Portsmouth switchboard
118
  
XI.
   Parallel switchboard
128
  
XII.
   Aston, Scott, and Stellite fan controllers
146
  
XIII.
   Scott's three-speed and 35-inch fan controllers
147
  
XIV.
   Siemens and Crompton's fan controller
147
  
XV.
   Siemens' after capstan controller
148
  
XVI.
   Laurence Scott's after capstan controller
149
  
XVII.
   Clarke Chapman's 10-ton after capstan controller
150
  
XVIII.
   Clarke Chapman's boat-hoist controller
151
  
XIX.
   Laurence Scott's boat-hoist motor
152
  
XX.
   Clarke Chapman's bar motor controller
153
  
XXI.
   Twin 6-inch turret controlling gear
154
  
XXII.
   H.M.S. "Terrible" 9.2-inch training motors
156
  
XXIII.
   Circuit of lift motor
158
  
XXIV.
   Circuit of lift motor
158
  
XXV.
   Arrangements of coils in slots and 105 k.w. generator
163
  
XXVI.
   Scott's 210 k.w. generator
165
  
XXVII.
   Diagram of 220 volt dynamo
166
  
XXVIII.
   Diagram of 220 volt dynamo
166
  
XXIX.
   Electrically controlled 36-inch projector
186
  
XXX.
   Pattern 70 searchlight projector
188
  
XXXI.
   Automatic inclined lamp
189
  
XXXII.
   Horizontal automatic lamp
190
  
XXXIII.
   "S" type arc lamp
199
  
XXXIV.
   Light curves of searchlights
207
  
XXXV.
   Curves for searchlight motor generator
221
  
XXXVI.
   Mather and Platt's searchlight motor generator
221
  
XXXVII.
   Laurence Scott's searchlight motor generator
222
  
XXXVIII.
   C.M.B. auto-convertor
225
  
XXXIX.
   Incandescent lighting circuit
231
  
XL.
   W.T. section box
234
  
XLI.
   W.T. distributor box
235
  
XLII.
   Single W.T. switch
236
  
XLIII.
   Arrangement of ring main in 220 volt ship
242
  
XLIV.
   Connections for supply breaker and control gear for one dynamo
244
  
XLV.
   Connections for branch breakers
245
  
XLVI.
   Looping in system
247
  
XLVII.
   Testing by earth lamps
254
  
XLVIII.
   Illuminating circuits
259
  
XLIX.
   Secondary battery chloride R. 9 type
272
  
L.
   Single stroke and trembler bells
274
  
LI.
   Reply gong and W.T. trembler bell
274
  
LII.
   Combined push and shutter and single shutter
275
  
LIII.
   Bell circuit diagrams
275
  
LIV.
   Group system of bells
276
  
LV.
   Engine room reply gongs
277
  
LVI.
   "Watch Pattern" and Hunning's cone transmitters
284
  
LVII.
   Bisley telephone
288
  
LVIII.
   Divers' telephone
288
  
LIX.
   New divers' telephone
289
  
LX.
   Graham's navyphones, Pattern 1855
290
  
LXI.
   Graham's navyphones, Patterns 2140 and 1856
292
  
LXII.
   Graham's navyphones, Patterns 2108 and 2109
292
  
LXIII.
   Graham's navyphones, Patterns 2140 A and 1856 A
295
  
LXIV.
   Graham's navyphones, Patterns 2108 A and 2109 A
295
  
LXV.
   Graham's navyphones, Pattern 860
296
  
LXVI.
   Graham's navyphones, Pattern 861
296
  
LXVII.
   Graham's navyphones, Pattern 863
296
  
LXVIII.
   Graham's navyphones, Pattern 541
296
  
LXIX.
   Change-over switches for navyphones
296
  
LXX.
   Graham's navyphone exchange
297
  
LXXI.
   Evershed's helm indicator, old pattern
300
  
LXXII.
   Evershed's helm indicator, new pattern
301
  
LXXIII.
   Diagram of connections of Kilroy's stoking indicator
303
  
LXXIV.
   Kilroy's stoking indicator instruments
303
  
LXXV.
   Electric log
304
  
LXXVI.
   Chadburn's revolution telegraph
305
  
LXXVII.
   Kilroy's danger trumpets
306
  
LXXVIII.
   Kilroy's turret danger signals
308
  
LXXIX.
   Electrically controlled compass transmitter
309
  
LXXX.
   Electrically controlled compass diagram
310
  
LXXXI.
   Electrically controlled compass receiver
310
  
LXXXII.
   Morse key and sounder
313
  
LXXXIII.
   Post Office relay
315
  
LXXXIV.
   Stations joined up for local working
317
  
LXXXV.
   Box for telegraph instruments and battery
318
  
LXXXVI.
   Relays used as buzzers and duplex working
318
  
LXXXVII.
   Double current key
320
  
LXXXVIII.
   Double current duplex
321
  
LXXXIX.
   Wheatstone's Post Office bridge and dial bridge
333
  
XC.
   Bridge megger
335
  
XCI.
   Sullivan's universal marine galvanometer
344
  
XCII.
   Insulation curves of Pattern 1207 cable
352
  

Notes

This volume would be much more interesting to me if the plates and figures included more depictions of the actual hardware and not simply their wiring and circuitry.  There is a true dearth of documentation for what (say) the many different navyphones looked like.