Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 200
hty power which hurled it,transmuted into electricity, had already reached,and was operating, street-cars in a city seventymiles aw9,y. Come into the power-house. Look at the fourgigantic generators, whirling and humming likeleviathan June-bugs—see the wicked, sputteringlittle blue sparks from the… … GLEAMING, HORIZONTAL COLUMNS OF WATER. They follow in curves the profile of the roughground, bringing the furious rush of water fromthe summit down to the turbines in the lowerbasement, turning out 26,000 horse-power. The force of the water in these penstocks isterrific. Tests of a four-inch jet…
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