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Caption: Dedication - Transportation Building Dedication Addresses
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MODERN PROBLEMS OF THE MANUFACTURER, POWER By Mr. George R. Henderson, Consulting Engineer, Baldwin Looomotive Works, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It has been said that "Knowledge is Power*1, but both Knowledge and Power are required to operate to advantage a modern manufacturing plant, and one is verily as important as the other. Few such plants can be located so near to natural sources of power that a careful consideration of this question may be eliminated. The burning question is often whether to buy power or produce it, or if the former be impracticable, how shall the power be produced and transmitted. The same question often arises with plants already in operation and where electric power has later been produced and distributed in the neighborhood of such plant, and it is frequently more difficult to form a correct decision in the latter case than in the former; but on the other hand when the plant is already existent we have definite knowledge of the consumption of power, light, heat and other necessaries which, with a new plant must be eliminated. When a new factory is to be built all the different kinds of power, heating, light, compressed air, water pressure etc., must be carefully computed and studied in order to determine what can be purchased with advantage and what
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