| |
| |
Caption: Dedication - Transportation Building Dedication Addresses
This is a reduced-resolution page image for fast online browsing.
EXTRACTED TEXT FROM PAGE:
Mr. Chairman, when this subject was given me of the problems of the manufacturer, it seemed to me that we might take a few moments to consider one of the problems, and that is, the power• Those of you who heard Mr. Inaull last night were no doubt convinced that the only thing to do ia to buy power, I had a talk of that kind with him about a month ago, and I do not think he has changed his opinion since then. I should like to emphasize the fact for the benefit of students, that in any case of this kind, of course this is true in all mechanical problems, but particularly in the application of power of the various kinds, whether to be produced or manufactured, or what kind of power we are to use, every individual case must be studied on its own basis and iA its own environment. We cannot say because a certain kind of power is good in one establishment that it is necessarily good or best in another. As an illustration, I remember a few years ago when some of the electrical experts were quite enthusiastic over the subject of electrifying steam lines, and some of them started out to base their figures on the cost of operation of the elevated railways in New York, and on the basis of those figures attempted to show a possible enormous saving in operation of lines out here in the western part of the country, hauling stock through the agricultural districts, and they were working upon figures obtained on the New York elevated. Of
| |
