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Central station experiences, a series of narratives on the trials and tribulations of a steam engineer while learning to run an electric station; (1901)

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-o LAMPS^-^■ Fig.3 CARELESS PARALLELING OF DYNAMOS. The Alillville factory and shop owners had reahzed the greatadvantages of electric motors to such a degree that the Httle cen-tral station had accumulated a motor day load of considerablemagnitude, necessitating the installation of another dynamo… … order to avoid working the two 500 lighters day and night. Ac-cordingly, a 230-volt, lOO-kilowatt generator had been put in anda separate motor circuit established. Then the lamp load gradu-ally increased until, for an hour or so early in the evening, thetwo 115-volt machines were slightly…

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