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The article focuses on the essence of computer in a power system and utilities of a company in the U.S. It says that a computer could provide information on the relative efficiencies of every generator in the network and the cost of fuel at every station. A computer works faster than an engineer and could calculate the power loss at every point throughout the network. It provides details on how companies, including American Gas & Electric Service Corp., take advantage on their computers.

The article discusses the significance of an automobile's horsepower in determining its capacity. It mentions that every manufacturer makes sure that their product's horsepower is being stated during their advertisements to catch consumer's attention. It affirms that horsepower is being measured by a dynamometer, an electric generator that measures the engine's power.

The article presents information on the proposed electrical work from director of purchasing Charles R. Miller and electrical contractor Harry F. Fischbach for the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. It discusses the responsibilities of electrical contractors for handling 60-man crew in a successful light. It mentions the brief history of Fischbach as a passionate man in electrical contracting business of motors and dynamos. It reports on cost-plus work, customer relations, and electrical engineering

The article features the production of McCulloch Motors Corp. in Los Angeles, California and its founder Robert Paxton McCulloch. It mentions that McCulloch works in what he calls closed chain management. It offers the development of the product line of the company including the building of the lightweight gasoline engines for paratrooper generator sets in McCulloch Aviation and the production of the supercharger. It discusses the concept of self-sufficiency promoted by McCulloch.

The article presents Michael Faraday's discovery of electromagnetic induction, which laws are found important in governing and building a working model of an electric dynamo. According to the author, Faraday took a long time in applying his work because no one saw the potential use of the work, and the application suffers insufficient theoretical support.

The article focuses on the contribution of scientist Thomas Edison in the discovery of an entire system of electric lighting by inventing the incandescent lamp. He was the first to recognize that electric lighting would require that electricity be generated and distributed at high voltage to subdivide it among many high-resistance burners. Aside from that, he and his associates also designed and built a new type of electric generator.

The article describes the creation of Van de Graaf machines by Franklin B. Lee, a chemical engineer. Lee emphasized that designers should know that approximately 50 square inches of belt per second passing over the pulleys will produce one microampere of current and that the maximum potential developed by the machine will be equal to 70,000 times the smallest radius of curvature of the collector in inches. He recommended the use of a practical collector which is spheroid with slightly flattened at the bottom.

The article presents information on the launch of largest electric generators at Grand Coulee in central Washington to deliver power aid for defense industries of Bonneville, 40 miles east of Portland. It reports on the increased electric load with the introduction of aluminum production plant by Reynolds Metals Co. at Longview, Washington, and fabricating plant by Alcoa Inc. However the defense emergency has become a life saver to Bonneville Grand Coulee Power Administration for selling power.

The article features 61-year-old storage-battery company, Electric Storage Battery Co. (ESB), located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Topics discussed include the appointment of S. Wyman Rolph as its new president, the preference to have its products such as Exide and Willard better known than the company, and the history of ESB which was incorporated after its discoveries of lead-oxide plate and engine-driven generators. Also discussed are its product developments.

This article offers account about the transportation of a stator by General Electric from Schenectady, New York to the Boston Edison Company's power station on the Mystic River at Everett, Massachusetts. The stator is the largest part of turbines which generate electricity for U.S. cities. This stator piece weighed 226 tons. Rudi Richard Korn and Lorenz Osterlitz were the ones assigned to oversee the shipment. The difficulties experienced during the shipment are highlighted.

Reports global developments related to science and industry as of May 1960. Importance of electric generator; Development of thermoelectric generator; Efficiency of thermionic converters.

The author comments on expenditure incurred by major oil and mining companies of the U.S. to search underground reservoirs of heat to drive electric generators. It states how the government targeted 40000 megawatts of geothermal power by 1985 which seems impossible. It mentions that geothermal drilling lacks incentives that are enjoyed by oil, gas and coal industry. The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) does not give geothermal producers a depletion allowance which makes big issue.

The article reports on the efforts of the coal industry in Great Britain to install emergency generating units due to the possible electricity shortage in the winter of 1974. Companies are reportedly worried that the coal stocks will not be adequate during the winter season. The article mentions the vulnerability of the power network in Great Britain to pressure from coal miners.

Focuses on the efforts of the Office of Coal Research of the U.S. Interior Department, to eliminate environmental pollution through research on magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). Description of MHD as a way of converting coal and other fossil fuels to electricity without intervening boilers, turbines or generators; Comparison of efficiency with conventional coal-fired generating plants; Efficiency in reducing air pollution.

The article reports on the reluctance of U.S. electric utilities to develop electric generators that manufacturers can use during an emergency. Louisville Gas & Electric Co. developed transmission lines on high ground in Kentucky after Caterpillar provided small diesel generators to help manufacturers affected by power outage due to the winter flood. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. and New York Telephone Co. also installed Caterpillar generators. Senator Royal Copeland created a bill that mandates Great Lakes vessels to carry emergency lighting systems.

The article discusses technological innovation and the economic aspects of innovation adoption in the United States. Changes that are highlighted include smaller, more effective dictating machines, the use of thickened fuel in power generation, and a new automatic juicing machine made out of stainless steel.

This section features the fort-lift truck from Baker-Raulang Co. and the new 5,000-watt and 10,000-watt generators of D.W. Onan & Sons Inc.

The article focuses on the announcement from workers at Argonne National Laboratory regarding the development in economics of nuclear-fission power in February 1958 in Argonne, Illinois. The laboratory had discovered an increase of kilowatt of heat from their experimental boiling water reactor than it was designed. If the extra heat were used to drive a generator, it would produce a lower cost of electricity.

The article evaluates the Simulated Sunshine Generator from Hanovia Chemical & Manufacturing Co. Inc.

The article reports on the 500,000-kilowatt (kw) power expansion program that was launched by the U.S. Office of War Utilities in 1943. The program will be open for public and private ownership and is expected to be completed by 1945. U.S. Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes added a generator for Grand Coulee.

The article offers brief information on several products including the Sun-Kraft Quartz Ultraviolet Generator from Sun-Kraft Inc., the White Hot paint from Preferred Utilities Co. Inc. and the Eliason Motor Toboggan from Four Wheel Drive Auto Co.

The article previews several products available in the U.S. in 1954, including a telephone from American Telephone & Telegraph Co., a portable electric generator from International Harvester and General Electric, and a swimming pool alarm from Modern Design Engineers.

The article reports on the installation of a turbo-generator at New York Edison Company's East River station.

Focuses on a weather station built by David A. Sankey, a U.S. Air Force officer, which displays information about outdoor temperature, humidity, wind speed and wind direction displayed on a panel. Operation of self-synchronous motors; Components of the electric generator of the anemometer; Information on the generator of the anemometer.

This article states that scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and at Westinghouse Electric Corp.'s laboratories in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania are developing power generators using materials with superconductivity, which promise to produce five times more energy at lower cost and cut the number of generators being built. It is expected that this technology will also provide a competitive edge to U.S. industries.

The article reports on a study titled Mobile Electric Power Project (MEPP) by the U.S. Department of Defense, that was meant to standardize military electric generators. The need for the study grew from the Vietnam War when the Defense ordered hundreds of generators for the U.S. armed forces camping in Vietnam. The MEPP has brought down the cost of new generators for the Defense Department.

The article discusses the implications of the decision of Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. to stop making steam-powered electric generators in 1962 after 58 years in the business. According to president Robert S. Stevenson, it is better to aggravate a capacity problem than to continue with an intolerable business. The steam turbo-generator business was the main reason for a 75% drop in the company's net income between 1959 and 1961.

The article reports on the decision of General Electric Co. (GE) to redesign its line of heavy industrial direct-current drive-motors and generators in 1962. Such motors and generators are capable of running heavy equipment such as paper machines, cement mills and metals processing mills. According to Paul D. Ross, manager of the company's Industrial Motor and Generator Production Section, the new line will be more reliable and easier to maintain and service.