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The L. S. Starrett Company is an American manufacturer of tools and instruments used by machinists, tool and die makers, and the construction industry. The company was founded by businessman and inventor Laroy Sunderland Starrett in 1880.
In this case, the centrifugal switch consists of weights mounted to the shaft of the motor and held near the shaft by spring force. At rest, levers attached to the weights press a low-friction , non-conductive plate against a set of electrical contacts mounted to the motor housing, closing the contacts and connecting the starting winding to the ...
The panel switch is an example of a power drive system, in that it used 1/16 horsepower motors to drive the selectors vertically to hunt for the desired connection, and back down again when the call was completed. In contrast, Strowger or crossbar systems used individual electromagnets for operation, and in their case the power available from ...
High-voltage switchgear A section of a large switchgear panel. Tram switchgear This circuit breaker uses both SF 6 and air as insulation.. In an electric power system, a switchgear is composed of electrical disconnect switches, fuses or circuit breakers used to control, protect and isolate electrical equipment.
Starrett Brothers planned to erect the Starrett–Lehigh Building, the world's largest integrated freight terminal–warehouse, on the site for $7 million. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] The 15-story building was to contain about 1,750,000 square feet (163,000 m 2 ; 40 acres; 16.3 ha) of space above the LV's existing tracks, as well as 10-by-30-foot (3.0 by 9.1 ...
Starrett City (also known as the Spring Creek Towers) is a housing development in the Spring Creek section of East New York in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.It is located on a peninsula on the north shore of Jamaica Bay, bounded by Fresh Creek and Canarsie to the west and Hendrix Creek to the east.