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A NOVEL arrangement has been adopted at the Physiological Laboratory at Cambridge, and at the Owens College, Manchester, for driving instruments in various rooms by means of a central motor. At the Brown Institution shafting has been used for the same purpose. This method is commonly used for driving machines which require a good deal of power, but it is not suitable for laboratories where the power is often required in many rooms, on different floors and some distance apart, thus causing great complication in the fittings. Again, when shafting is used, the instrument to be driven must be placed opposite a pulley on the shaft; in the arrangement about to be described, the instrument may be moved to any part of the tables, and the tables can be fixed in any part of the rooms.
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Distribution of Driving-Power in Laboratories . Nature 33, 248–250 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/033248b0
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