Record Details
Car-controlling Mechanism
Washington State University Libraries
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Car-controlling Mechanism |
| Description | Car-controlling mechanism (left) for the gearless passenger elevator block 11. A steel tape attached to the car and running over a seave in the housing (at left) drives, by means of a chain and gears, the threaded shaft in the car controller. A traveling carriage on the screw actuates switches on the car-controller panel by engaging stops on two vertical rods in the foreground. Vertical movements on the rods operate switches at their upper ends, and through them the switches on the... Car-controlling mechanism (left) for the gearless passenger elevator block 11. A steel tape attached to the car and running over a seave in the housing (at left) drives, by means of a chain and gears, the threaded shaft in the car controller. A traveling carriage on the screw actuates switches on the car-controller panel by engaging stops on two vertical rods in the foreground. Vertical movements on the rods operate switches at their upper ends, and through them the switches on the... |
| Creator | United States. Bureau of Reclamation |
| Subject | Elevators, Automatic--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Elevators--Design and construction--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam |
| Coverage | Safety equipment; Gearing United States--Washington (State)--Grant County--Grand Coulee Dam site, Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.) |
| Type | photographs |
| Identifier | cg040b07v10p127.jpg http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/banks,4829 |
| Date | 1942 2010 |
| Publisher | Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries: http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/masc.htm |
| Source | Columbia Basin Project History (Vol. X, Page 127)-Cage 40, Box 6 of the Frank Arthur Banks Papers, 1913-1957: http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/Holland/masc/finders/cg40.htm |
| Rights | To order a reproduction please see: http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/policies.htm; or contact Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections: (509) 335-6691. For permission to publish please contact Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections: (509) 335-6691. |
| Format | Original photographic prints scanned at 24 bit color, with 4000 pixels by the long side, for master TIFF files on an Epson Expression 10,000 XL scanner. Prints were then batch translated into JPEG files. These JPEGs were then added to the CONTENTdm database at WSU Libraries |
| Language | English |
