An investigation of the cost of power

✍ Scribed by Clyde D. Gray

• Book ID: 104115680
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1901
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 895 KB
• Volume: 152
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(01)90104-8

✦ Synopsis

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This investigation was undertaken in order to get a collection of reliable data on the production, cost and utilization of power by different methods. As far as the writer knows, there has been nothing published of this character and this attempt, although crude, may serve to give a slight insight into the subject.

In this investigation, complete files of the different "engineering and technical periodicals were consulted as well as the transactions of the various engineering societies and the more important books relating to engineering in its many branches.

The writer has attempted to get the results of such tests and estimates as seemed reliable, to incorporate in the various tables given and has not tried to deduce any very specific conclusions, believing that the reader can best arrive at them in regard to any special case much better than if they were given by the writer. Such deductions as are given are, consequently, of the very broadest character.

The subject is a very broad one and the time given to it permitted only a brief review of the material that might have been used.