. Journal of electricity, power, and gas . Fig. 1. General Electric Self-Starting Controller. place of the laundry maid and performs all the laborious workof washday. In many other ways it is eliminating toil andcontributing to the pleasures of life. One of its most interesting applications is to the per-formance of operations which are of so rare occurrence as. Pig-. General Electricfor large D. Self-Starting ControllerC. Motors. to make the presence of an attendant an expensive such service electricity is an ideal source of power, asit admits of automatic control, is always ready
. Journal of electricity, power, and gas . Fig. 1. General Electric Self-Starting Controller. place of the laundry maid and performs all the laborious workof washday. In many other ways it is eliminating toil andcontributing to the pleasures of life. One of its most interesting applications is to the per-formance of operations which are of so rare occurrence as. Pig-. General Electricfor large D. Self-Starting ControllerC. Motors. to make the presence of an attendant an expensive such service electricity is an ideal source of power, asit admits of automatic control, is always ready for instantuse, and costs nothing except when it is being used. There is no delay waiting to get up steam and its use is not at-tended with odor, noise, or steam. The motor and controll-ing apparatus occupy very little space and may be installedon the wall or ceiling where it will be out of the way. Sucha device, becomes a servant that needs no watching andnever forgets. An excellent example of the utility of the electric motorequipped with automatic control is its application to the op-eration of pumps required to maintain a certain water levelin a tank. If the water level falls below a certain prede-termined value the controlling device automatically startsthe motor and the pump continues to operate until the waterlevel is raised to a predetermined val
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