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Richard J Kinch wrote:
RoyJ writes:


Motors for the line shafts
http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/habshaer/n...s/112615pv.jpg



The mechanical analog to a mainframe computer and time-sharing.


So, are those DC motors, or AC. At the time the Edison/GE works
closed up and moved to upper NY state, I suspect AC was fairly
well entrenched. Anybody got better close-ups of those motors?

Jon