Caption: Booklet - Engineering Experiment Station and Industry (1909)
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Breckenridge—Engineering Experiment Station Breckenridge—Engineering Experiment Station 5 are available in the investigations of the Agricultural Experiment Station. It can economize in the use of its fuels, it is doing so in all the great plants that manufacture light and power. Not more than one half as much coal is used to produce one horse-power today as MILLIONS j NEW YORK PENNSYLVANIA ILLINOIS OHIO MISSOURI TEXAS MASSACHUSETTS INDIANA MICHIGAN IOWA GEORGIA KENTUCKY WISCONSIN TENNESSEE N O R T H CAROLINA NEW JERSEY VIRGINIA ALABAMA MINNESOTA MISSISSIPPI CALIFORNIA KANSAS LOUISIANA SOUTH CAROLINA ARKANSAS MARYLAND NEBRASKA m W E S T VIRGINIA CONNECTICUT — MAINE H COLORADO — JFLORIDA n WASHINGTON mm RHODE ISLAND •• OREGON •• NEW HAMPSHIRE m SOUTH DAKOTA •• OKLAHOMA • INDIAN TERRITORY m VERMONT • NORTH DAKOTA • DIST. OF COLUMBIA UTAH • MONTANA • NEW MEXICO • DELAWARE • IDAHO • HAWAII m ARIZONA • WYOMING • ALASKA i NEVADA i | 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 mined, and in large plants, located near plenty of condensing water, power can be produced as cheaply in Illinois as it is now produced at the brink of Niagara Falls. But industries prosper, because in CHART SHOWING POPULATION OF ILLINOIS AND CHICAGO z o POPULATION CHART UNITED STATES 1900 8 7 6 5 4 3 ii i iMnic CHICAGO -J 3 a. o o. o 2 -J / f 2 / // ? z d I 0 1800 FIG. 3 . / 1850 1900 1950 FIG. 2.—POPULATION OF T H E DNITICD STATUS was used thirty years ago. But fuel must hv burned to produce most of our power (Fig. 6) for many years to come. I larncss the water whenever you can, but three quarters of (he power produced in the United States at the end of the next forty years will be produced .by burning coal. Fortunately Illinois lias much coal. It is cheaply YEARS POPULATION OF ILLINOIS AND CHICAGO America we use power for our labor and we make steam and electricity do a rapidly increasing part of the work. In some states it
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