March meeting, A. I. E. E.

The two-hundred and thirty-fifth meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers will be held in the auditorium of the Engineers´ Building, 33 West Thirty-ninth Street, New York City, on Friday, March 12, 1909, at 8 o´clock p.m. Mr. Barton R. Shover, electrical engineer of the Indiana Steel Company, will present a paper entitled “The Industrial Application of the Electric Motor as Illustrated in the Gary Plant of the Indiana Steel Company” The paper is printed in this issue of the PROCEEDINGS, in Section II. It deals with the many novel features of the electrical installations in the Gary plant, undoubtedly the largest steel-making plant in the world. One of the most interesting features of this plant is the electrical equipment of the rail-mill. This mill has a capacity of 4,000 tons of finished rails every 24 hours. The rails are rolled directly from the ingot without reheating, the roll-trains being direct-connected to the largest induction motors ever made. Some of these motors are of 2,000 h.p. capacity; others have a capacity of 6,000 h.p. All of the motors are operated at a pressure of 6600 volts.