Electrolysis of Underground Pipes in Brooklyn.
EORGE W. Plympton and Frederic R. Lee, Commissioners of Electrical Subways of Brooklyn, submitted to the Mayor on February 27th, a special report on the corrosion of water pipes, gas pipes, and telephone cables by the return current of the electric railways in that city. The report, which was presented to the lion. Charles A. Schieren, Mayor of Brooklyn, was in part as follows:
The Board of Commissioners of Electrical Subways begs leave to submit the following report as an appendix to the annual report submitted December 15, 1893. It relates to a single. subject, viz., the corrosion of water pipes, gas pipes and telephone cables by the return current of the trolley electric system. The following report would have formed apart of the earlier communications, but the materials for it were not then obtainable.
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