Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 282, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1917 — Largest Electric Motor. [ARTICLE]

Largest Electric Motor.

What is said to be the largest elec trie motor yet built has recently been completed by a leading. American electrical manufacturer, for use in driving a two-high 35-lnch reversing blooming mill, which reverses for every pass; that is, every time ifi'etal goes through the rolls. Reversals can Be made from full speed to full speed in about two seconds, and in regular work 19 or 20 passes are made in two minutes. The motor has a rating of 15,000, and complete it weighs more than 250 tons. It Is 20 feet high and the shaft Is over two feet in diameter.