Excerpt from High-Tension Underground Electric Cables: A Practical Treatise for Engineers As one of the experts in a recent and important controversy regarding the necessity of putting underground certain high-tension aerial wires in the largest city in America, the author was made to realize the general lack of information with reference to the possibilities and advantages of subsurface electric transmission. This led to the wanting of a series of papers on high-tension cables, which were published in the Electrical World, during the fall of 1908. The interest displayed at this time, in these matters, has led the author to conclude that re-writing, expanding and adding to these papers so as to compile a summary of the high-tension cable situation as it exists to-day, would be a valuable and a helpful contribution to the up-to-date literature of electrical engineering. In the following pages are contained summaries of experience, facts and figures, which have been gathered from almost innumerable sources, so that the whole may be said to fairly represent the concensus of present opinion of a majority of engineers acquainted with and practiced in the use of high-tension subsurface transmission. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.