ance to which power can be found feasible to transmit power at a transmitted at a profit depends upon the profit over comparatively very long dis- price that can be obtained and the cost tances,— in one case 225 miles. Where of transmission. This cost of transmis- sion increases very rapidly as the… … (&VLKXZUX %QVXtB The overheating of dwellings, hotels, ature upon which bodily comfort de- and public buildings generally is, in the pends and not the temperature indicated minds of most people outside of Amer- by the ordinary thermometer, and the ica, a specific American characteristic. sensible…
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