エジソンの実験プロセスと電力網の確認

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  • エジソンの実験プロセスには多くの興奮と重要な瞬間が含まれていました。
  • 彼はさまざまなテストを行い、商業的な価値のあるデータを得ました。
  • 電力網のテストでは、予期しない出来事や小さな欠陥が見つかりましたが、エジソンは慎重な試験を行いました。
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Those days and nights were filled with critical and exciting moments.All tests were most thorough and complete.Even outside bridgebuilding exports were called in to try the iron structure upon which the six steam dynamo rested.Then Edison began to test his station electrically and many trials and experimrnts were made,furnishing valuable data of a commercial nature for the oeration of central stations.The tension indicator designed by Edison for controlling the electrical pressure at the feeder ends of his underground network was put into operation and found satisfactory.Its proper working and standardizing was one of the functions especially confided to Lieb.The underground network was tested by Herman Claudius,an Austrian veteran of the old school,and its insulation was found perfect.In the tests of a radically new system,of course,certain unexpected things will happen,and minor defects will appear from time tobtime;that was reason Edison conducted such careful trials before permanent operation of the plant began.

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その当時昼も夜も、重大かつワクワクする瞬間で一杯だった。すべてのテストが徹底的で完璧だった。橋や建物の外部ですら、6機の蒸気ダイナモが置かれる鉄の構造をテストする為に専門家が呼ばれた。その後エジソンは、発電所の電気部分に関してテストを始め、多くの検査と実験がなされ、中央発電所運用の為の商業面における貴重なデータが提供された。地中に張り巡らせた送電線のフィーダー線の出口で、電気圧力をコントロールする為にエジソンが設計した電圧表示器は作動し、申し分ないことがわかった。その正常な作動と規格化は、特にリープに託された役割のひとつだった。地中の送電ネットワークは、オーストリア人で昔堅気のベテラン技師、ハーマン(ドイツ語読みだとヘルマン)・クラウディウスがテストし、その絶縁処理が完璧だとわかった。もちろん根本的に新しいシステムのテスト中には、いくらかの予期せぬ事は起こるし、小規模な不具合は時とともに現れてくる。エジソンが発電設備の永久的運用開始前に、かかる慎重な検査を実施したのはそれが理由だった。

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