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CENTRAL ELECTRICAL STATIONS: Their Design, Organisation, and Management.
BY CHAS. H. WORDINGHAM, A.K.C., M. INST. C.E., M. INST. MECH. E., Late
Memb. of Council Inst. E.E., and Electrical Engineer to the City of
Manchester.
ABRIDGED CONTENTS.
Introductory.--Central Station Work as a Profession.--As an
Investment.--The Establishment of a Central Station.--Systems of
Supply.--Site.--Architecture.--Plant.--Boilers.--Systems of Draught and
Waste Heat Economy.--Coal Handling, Weighing, and Storing.--The
Transmission of Steam.--Generators.--Condensing Appliances.--Switching
Gear, Instruments, and Connections.--Distributing Mains.--Insulation,
Resistance, and Cost.--Distributing Networks.--Service Mains and
Feeders.--Testing Mains.--Meters and Appliances.--Standardising
and Testing Laboratory.--Secondary Batteries.--Street
Lighting.--Cost.--General Organisation.--Mains Department.--Installation
Department.--Standardising Department.--Drawing Office.--Clerical
Department.--The Consumer.--Routine and Main Laying.--INDEX.
"One of the MOST VALUABLE CONTRIBUTIONS to Central Station literature we
have had for some time."--_Electricity._
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ELECTRICITY CONTROL.
A Treatise on Electricity Switchgear and Systems of Transmission.
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