Blast from the past II

[480sparky]

Here's some excerps from the 1925 NEC. Enjoy!

ECG sizes:

The ol' 80%/125% rule was used even back then:

Conductor construction specifications: Hmmm. no AWG or B&S marking?

Wow! 3/4" pipe for three 12's!:

Lightning Arresters;

The entire article for transformers:

To put this in perspective, in 1925,

A team of Siberian Huskies won the 'race of mercy', delivering antitoxin to diphtheria-threatened Nome, Alaska. This gave rise to the world-renowned sled-dog competition called Iditarod.
Lawyers Clarence Darrow went head-to-head against William Jennings Bryan in the so-called Scopes Monkey Trial.
Col. William "Billy" Mitchell is found guilty of insubordination for being a champion and advocate of air power in the military.
Charlie Chaplin elicits laughs and tears as America's favorite tramp in The Gold Rush.
Knute Rockne lifts Notre Dame from obscurity, beating Stanford 27-10 in the Rose Bowl.

 

[Sierrasparky]

Boy I did not even know the NEC went back that far

 

[480sparky]

Boy I did not even know the NEC went back that far

It goes back further than you think.

Here's a little history....

 

[LarryFine]

To put this in perspective, in 1925,

A team of Siberian Huskies won the 'race of mercy', delivering antitoxin to diphtheria-threatened Nome, Alaska. This gave rise to the world-renowned sled-dog competition called Iditarod.
Lawyers Clarence Darrow went head-to-head against William Jennings Bryan in the so-called Scopes Monkey Trial.
Col. William "Billy" Mitchell is found guilty of insubordination for being a champion and advocate of air power in the military.
Charlie Chaplin elicits laughs and tears as America's favorite tramp in The Gold Rush.
Knute Rockne lifts Notre Dame from obscurity, beating Stanford 27-10 in the Rose Bowl.

It took me a few moments of reading before I realized these sentences were not intended to be related. :roll:

 

[ceb58]

I wonder what a slab of Marble would cost to set a transformer on today?

 

[Paul Coxwell]

Boy I did not even know the NEC went back that far

Our equivalent code here in the U.K. was first published way back in 1882, under the catchy title of "Rules & Regulations for the Prevention of Fire Risks arising from Electric Lighting."