Electricity for the Farm
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Electricity for the Farm by Frederick Irving Anderson is described as light, heat and power by inexpensive methods from the water wheel or farm engine. The preface says the book is designed primarily to give the farmer a practical working knowledge of electricity for use as light, heat, and power on the farm. The text says every 400 gallons that falls 10 feet in one minute, or every 40 gallons that falls 100 feet in one minute, means the power of one horse going to waste.
Under the heading Items of Cost, the text says a water wheel would cost $250 new and a dynamo cost $90 and was picked up second-hand in New York City. Under the heading Capacity, the text says a plant supplies two farms with electric light, and that one farm, the owner of the wheel's, has 30 lamps of 16 candlepower each. The text says heating, in any form, by electricity requires a large amount of current proportionally.
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- About 3 hours
- Pages
- 119
- Language
- English
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- Engineering
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