The transmission of power by electricity

✍ Scribed by Frank J. Sprague

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1889
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 418 KB
• Volume: 127
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(89)90107-5

✦ Synopsis

Beach Bulkhead. ~ * * Rockaway Beach has been steadily gaining ground to the west. The gain for the last twenty years has been about four miles.

[Signed] R.H. RYDER, Keeper.

Thus in this range of i° i7 p of longitude, equivalent, at this latitude, to about sixty-eight miles along the southern coast of Long Island, there is found to exist a progressive westerly movement of the shore line, corresponding to the direction of the bottom currents during the incoming ti~te. If the rate of growth of Rockaway Beach is correctly stated, it would indicate a more rapid movement, as the tide is compressed towards the gorge at the entrance to New York Bay, between Coney Island and Sandy Hook. From this it would appear that the westerly movement of the beach sand is due chiefly to the direction of the flood tide, rather than to the alleged prevailing direction of the wind: or to northeast storms, which here would be off shore. THE TRANSMISSION oF POWER BY ELECTRICITY.