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Twentieth century hand-book for steam engineers and electricians with questions and answers; a practical non-technical treatise .. (1913)

Swingle, Calvin Franklin, 1846- [from old catalog] · Chicago, F. J. Drake & company · leaf 1404

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lossany more than we can entirely avoid friction. But we canreduce our loss to a very small quantity simply by selectinga very large wire to carry the current. This would be theproper thing to do if it were not for the cost of copper^which would make such an installation very expensive. Asit is^… … Fig. 660 In long distance transmission and where the quality oflight; is not very important, a loss of 10 or 20 per cent issometimes allowed, but in stores, residences, etc., the lossshould not exceed 2 or 3 per cent, otherwise the candlepower of the lamps will vary too much. Where the cost of fuel…

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