Central station experiences, a series of narratives on the trials and tribulations of a steam engineer while learning to run an electric station; (1901)
New York, Power Publishing Co. · leaf 70
; nextones not quite eight, but it must be eight because the first one isat zero. Next ones not quite three, so two is right. Next one isat nine, and the last one seems to be at zero, but it cant reachzero accurately until the one on its right does. Therefore it mustbe considered not quite up to… … Jimmie stood on one foot, then on the other. He read the meter 927,500, and knew that must be wrong, sohe prefixed a figure one unit larger than last months register.Quite a natural error. Thats so, assented the engineer. But even the correctedreading is smaller than the average rate shown by the…
Electric power-plants
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