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The Twenty-Eighth Street Central Station of the United Electric Light and Power Company
The history of the development of the electrical industries for the past few years probably presents the most remarkable example of rapid growth ever recorded, and nowhere is this better exemplified than in the central stations of this and other cities, where the current is generated for distribution over areas of greater or less extent for the supply of light and power. In isolated plants the apparatus is generally small and simple in construction, and the generation of electricity is a matter of secondary importance; the cost of the current generated is comparatively immaterial, and a plant once installed runs until it refuses absolutely to do any more work, when it is sold for junk and another put in its place. In central stations, however, this is not the case.
The Twenty-Eighth Street Central Station of the United Electric Light and Power Company
The history of the development of the electrical industries for the past few years probably presents the most remarkable example of rapid growth ever recorded, and nowhere is this better exemplified than in the central stations of this and other cities, where the current is generated for distribution over areas of greater or less extent for the supply of light and power. In isolated plants the apparatus is generally small and simple in construction, and the generation of electricity is a matter of secondary importance; the cost of the current generated is comparatively immaterial, and a plant once installed runs until it refuses absolutely to do any more work, when it is sold for junk and another put in its place. In central stations, however, this is not the case.
The Twenty-Eighth Street Central Station of the United Electric Light and Power Company
York, H. W. (author)
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers ; 35 ; 429-450
2021-01-01
221896-01-01 pages
Article (Journal)
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