 | The University of Virginia record January 15, 1926 |  |
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING LABORATORY
The Scott Laboratory of Electrical Engineering.—This laboratory was initially
equipped and endowed by Mrs. Frances Branch Scott, of Richmond,
Va., as a memorial to her late son, an alumnus of this University. During
the year 1910 the equipment was substantially increased through the generosity
of the Hon. Charles R. Crane, of Chicago, Ill., a friend of the University.
During 1912 still further substantial additions were made, consisting
of measuring instruments, auxiliary control apparatus, and more
particular a steam-turbine-driven three-phase alternating-current generator
with exciter and control switchboard.
Within the past year very considerable additions have been made to
the equipment. The laboratory has been rearranged and rewired and a
special treatment has been used on the floors to eliminate dust. The newer
apparatus installed comprises a complete three-element oscillograph set
with the necessary accessories, two direct-current motor generator sets
with automatic push-button start and stop control complete, an experimental
test generator with modern switchboard panel for its control and motor
for driving it equipped with automatic push-button start, stop and reverse
control.
The latest apparatus installed now ready for use consists of a synchronous
motor driving an alternating current generator and a three-wire direct
current generator, with two exciters, on a common shaft. A complete three-panel
instruments and controls including a voltage regulator for the alternating
current generator.
In addition to full sets of electric meters with the appliances for testing
and calibrating them, galvanometers of the best modern types, standard
cells and resistances, standard condensers, and other pieces of apparatus
for minor tests, this laboratory contains numerous pieces of the very best
construction. Such are the Wolff potentiometer, the Seimens and Halske
Thomson double bridge, the Koepsel permeameter, the Station photometer
with Lummer-Brodhun screen, Macbeth illuminometer, the Carey-Foster
bridge and others. For the work in machine testing there are, in addition
to the newer equipment listed above, a number of direct-current generators
and motors, series, shunt and compound, an interpole motor, a double-current
generator, a two-phase alternator, a General Electric experimental
test set for alternating current, comprising a generator furnishing single,
two, three, six or twelve-phase current, and, in addition, offering three types
of induction motors with all necessary starting and controlling devices, a
single-phase repulsion motor, a two-phase induction motor, two three-phase
induction motors, several pairs of constant voltage transformers, a constant
current transformer, frequency meters, power factor indicator, synchronism
indicator, ground detector and the auxiliary apparatus used in testing these
machines. The laboratory has been arranged with a system of universal
plug and receptacle-connections to facilitate the setting up of all experimental
combinations.
| The University of Virginia record January 15, 1926 | |