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LINE INSTALLER, TROLLEY

Specialty Definition: LINE INSTALLER, TROLLEY

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Occupations

Installs, inspects, and maintains street-railway electrical and related equipment, such as poles, feeder cables, trolley wires and supports, and high-tension lines, following blueprints, manuals, and work orders: Replaces worn or broken poles and straightens leaning poles, securing pole in position in ground with guy wires, using block and tackle. Cuts faulty sections from overhead wires and splices in new wire, anchoring severed ends with block and tackle while new wire and splicing fixtures are being installed. Installs clinch ears (clamps) that connect trolley wire to supporting cross cables, and switches that throw trolley pole from one trolley wire to another, using hammer and clinching iron. Installs running boards that carry trolley wires under overhead crossings by clamping boards to beams or girders. Strings cable from pole to pole with assistance of ground crew. Tests electrical installations, using various testing devices. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: LINE INSTALLER, TROLLEY


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 49 4E 45      49 4E 53 54 41 4C 4C 45 52 2C      54 52 4F 4C 4C 45 59

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01001001 01001110 01000101 00100000 01001001 01001110 01010011 01010100 01000001 01001100 01001100 01000101 01010010 00101100 00100000 01010100 01010010 01001111 01001100 01001100 01000101 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#73 &#78 &#69 &#32 &#73 &#78 &#83 &#84 &#65 &#76 &#76 &#69 &#82 &#44 &#32 &#84 &#82 &#79 &#76 &#76 &#69 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0049 004E 0045      0049 004E 0053 0054 0041 004C 004C 0045 0052 002C      0054 0052 004F 004C 004C 0045 0059

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

46434839243485354354646395214254524946463959

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