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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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been troubled a little in balancing the gen-erators when both are in. What do they do? They get out of balance as the load increases, and sometimesits so bad the boy has to stand by the rheostat until the heavyload hour is over. Funny, said Jones. T spose youve looked em over. Best I knew how, said… … Hm, grunted Jones reflectively. Funny. Lets take a lookagain. They examined the generators from top to bottom, but Jonesfound nothing wrong. If it aint in a generator its bound to be in the equalizer, he said after a few moments. So they inspected the equalizerleads from the generators to…

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