. Electrical world. FIG. 9.—EXTERIOR ul- 1 lIiiUSE, CONCORD, N. H., WATER POWERPL.\NT. The first electric lighting at Manchester was done with water powerrented from the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company in 1882, but thispower was abandoned when the plant was moved to the Brook Streetstation in 1886. It was not until 1890 that an electric station for theuse of water power was built, and this station was located at KelleysFalls, about three miles from the business section of the city onthe Piscataquog River. At Concord, N. H., on the Merrimac River, the steam-drivenelectric station was abandoned i
. Electrical world. FIG. 9.—EXTERIOR ul- 1 lIiiUSE, CONCORD, N. H., WATER POWERPL.\NT. The first electric lighting at Manchester was done with water powerrented from the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company in 1882, but thispower was abandoned when the plant was moved to the Brook Streetstation in 1886. It was not until 1890 that an electric station for theuse of water power was built, and this station was located at KelleysFalls, about three miles from the business section of the city onthe Piscataquog River. At Concord, N. H., on the Merrimac River, the steam-drivenelectric station was abandoned in 1892, and electrical supply therehas since been drawn from the water power at Sewalls Falls, aboutfour miles up stream from the business center of the city. In Maine the great abundance of water power led to its early usein some of the electrical supply systems. At Lewiston and Auburn,. FIG. 10.—DAM \T SEWELL S FALLS. X. H. Me., cities that are separated only by the narrow Androscoggin River,and are a unit from a business standpoint, electric lighting seems tohave been done with water power from the start, and four earlywater-driven stations are still in operation there pending the comple-tion of a large modern plant about three miles up the river. Port-land, the largest city of the State, depended on steam power for elec-tric lighting up to 1898, though there are a number of undevelopedwater falls within twenty miles of the business center, and one ofthe systems there still operates entirely with steam. Several causes have combined to postpone the application of waterpower to the second decade of electrical supply. One of these causesis the idea, not yet entirely outgrown, that electric generating stationsmust be placed as close as possible to their loads. This idea had itsonly substantial foundation in the limitations of no and 220-volt
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