. The Niagara book : a complete souvenir of Niagara Falls : containing sketches, stories and essays--descriptive, humorous, historical and scientific. ge that crosses the great end roomof the power station. From this bridge a view can beobtained of the electrical generators and of the variousmachinery required to effect the transformations fromthe alternating current of high potential to currentssuited to the various uses, with the capability of de-livery in just such quantity and force of current as maybe required for the purposes to which electricity can beapplied. The electric generators in
. The Niagara book : a complete souvenir of Niagara Falls : containing sketches, stories and essays--descriptive, humorous, historical and scientific. ge that crosses the great end roomof the power station. From this bridge a view can beobtained of the electrical generators and of the variousmachinery required to effect the transformations fromthe alternating current of high potential to currentssuited to the various uses, with the capability of de-livery in just such quantity and force of current as maybe required for the purposes to which electricity can beapplied. The electric generators in the Power House will ofthemselves show perhaps little that is especially attrac- 202 THE UTILIZATION OF NIAGARA S POWER. tive, either as to massive proportions or intricate andcurious machineiy, but they will be wonderful foi theirsimpHcity, and the thoughtful visitor will be interested toknow that each of the 80 odd thousand pounds of steelto be seen rapidly revolving like gigantic spinningtops is perhaps delivering a current of ten or twentythousand volts pressure directly by cables that areconcealed beneath the floor of the Power House, and. INTERIOR OF TUNNEL. thence carried into an underground space below thebridge upon which the visitor will stand. Nearby willbe seen the switch-boards with all the dangerous con- THE UTILIZATION OF NIAGARA S POWER. 203 ductors entirely concealed from view. The operatorshandling the distributing devices will do so by meansof silk cords attached to the various levers and otherdevices that must be moved to effect the distributionof the current. In this room will be arranged all those instrumentsthat will enable the electricians in charge to know ex-actly what is occurring at every part of the electricalsystem. Every centre of distribution, whether it isnearby or a hundred miles away, will be in directcommunication and visibly record its condition toguide the operators in this Power House. There thecurrents can be controlled and the speed of
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