Electrical news and engineering . disabled, overloaded steam generating plant hasbeen replaced by a compact, scrupulously clean and amplypowerful transforming station. .\ few odd carbon incan-descents and a few worn-out street arcs, situated on the prin-cipal corners only, rather intensifjing. by comparison, tlielong dark stretches l)etween. have given way to a judicious-ly di^triliuteii, modern installation of tWl-watt tungstens: and the dim. blackened, years-old carbon lamps of the storesand houses, their inefficiency magnified by a voltage oftenrunning below par. now vie with the street lam
Electrical news and engineering . disabled, overloaded steam generating plant hasbeen replaced by a compact, scrupulously clean and amplypowerful transforming station. .\ few odd carbon incan-descents and a few worn-out street arcs, situated on the prin-cipal corners only, rather intensifjing. by comparison, tlielong dark stretches l)etween. have given way to a judicious-ly di^triliuteii, modern installation of tWl-watt tungstens: and the dim. blackened, years-old carbon lamps of the storesand houses, their inefficiency magnified by a voltage oftenrunning below par. now vie with the street lamps in turn-ing this bright little town by day into a brighter one bynight. Tlie-energy is obtained from Berlin, some 14 miles dis-tant, where one of the main sub-stations of the Hydro-Elec-tric Commission is situated. Current is led in by a doublecircuit, wooden pole line, the double line being considered anecessary precaution, bj- the commissions engineers, forllic supply of a continuous >ervice: it also allows for large I L.
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