Electric Railways And The Electric Transmission Of Power Described In Plain Terms Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from Electric Transmission of Water Power Electrical supply from transmitted water-power is now distributed in more than fifty cities of North America. These include Mexico City, iwith a population of Bufialo and San Francisco, with and respectively; Montreal, with 266 826, and Los Angeles, St. Paul, and Minneapolis, with populations that range between and each. North and south these cities extend from Quebec to An derson, and from Seattle to Mexico City. East and west the chain of cities includes Portland, Springfield, Albany, Bufi'alo, Hamilton, To ronto, St. Paul, Butte, Salt Lake City, and San Francisco. T o reach these cities the water-power is electrically transmitted, in many cases dozens, in a number of cases scores, and in one case more than two hundred miles. In the East, Canada is the Site of the longest transmis sion, that from Shawinigan Falls to Montreal, a distance of eighty - five miles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.