Excerpt from A Practical Guide to the Testing of Insulated Wires and Cables The main idea running through this little work is to present in clear and practical form the ordinary every-day work of the testing-room, in other words, the rudiments of wire and cable testing, with a view to furnishing to the workers in the great fields of telephony, telegraphy, elec tric lighting and electric railroading a concise guide to the manipulation of a set of testing instruments. It goes without saying that references have been occa sionally made to the standard work on this subject, Kempe's Handbook of Electrical Testing; and the same writer's Electrical Engineer's Pocket-book, has also, from time to time been referred to. The author's acknowledgments are due to Mr. E. H. Lyon for assistance in the preparation of the original diagrams, which materially help to explain the text. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.