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Electricity For The Farm Light Heat And Power By Inexpensive Me

Small amount of water required for an electric plant--Exploring, on a dull day--A rough and ready weir--What a little water will do--The water wheel and the dynamo--Electricity consumed the instant it is produced--The price of the average small plant, not counting labor 22

Chapters

16. Chapter 16

Different types of water wheels--The impulse and reaction wheels--The impulse wheel adapted to high heads and small amount of water--Pipe lines--Table of resistance in pipes--Ad...

18. Chapter 18

The farmer's wife his partner--Little and big plants--Limiting factors--Fluctuations in water supply--The average plant--The actual plant--Amount of current required for various...

17. Chapter 17

Electricity compared to the heat and light of the Sun--The simple dynamo--The amount of electric energy a dynamo will generate--The modern dynamo--Measuring power in terms of el...

25. Chapter 25

The automatic plant most desirable--How an automobile lighting and starting system works--How the same results can be achieved in house lighting, by means of automatic devices--...

15. Chapter 15

What is a horsepower?--How the Carthaginians manufactured horsepower--All that goes up must come down--How the sun lifts water up for us to use--Water the ideal power for genera...

22. Chapter 22

Direct-connected generating sets--Belt drive--The switchboard--Governors and voltage regulators--Methods of achieving constant pressure at all loads: Over-compounding the dynamo...

24. Chapter 24

What a storage battery does--The lead battery and the Edison battery--Economy of tungsten lamps for storage batteries--The low-voltage battery for electric light--How to figure...

13. Chapter 13

Let us take an actual instance of one man who did go ahead and find out by experience just how intricate and just how simple a thing electricity from farm water-power is. This m...

21. Chapter 21

The insurance code--Different kinds of wiring described--Wooden moulding cheap and effective--The distributing panel--Branch circuits--Protecting the circuits--The use of porcel...

19. Chapter 19

Copper wire--Setting of poles--Loss of power in transmission--Ohm's Law and examples of how it is used in figuring size of wire--Copper-wire tables--Examples of transmission lin...

23. Chapter 23

Electricity is of so much value in farm operations, as well as in the farm house, that the farmer who is not fortunate enough to possess water-power of his own, or to live in a...

14. Chapter 14

Small amount of water required for an electric plant--Exploring, on a dull day--A rough and ready weir--What a little water will do--The water wheel and the dynamo--Electricity...

12. Chapter 12

The automatic plant most desirable--How an automobile lighting and starting system works--How the same results can be achieved in house lighting, by means of automatic devices--...

20. Chapter 20

is the so-called flat-compounded type. In such a dynamo, the voltage remains constant at the switchboard, from no load to full load, allowing for a slight curve which need not b...

4. Chapter 4

Different types of water wheels--The impulse and the reaction wheels--The impulse wheel adapted to high heads and small amount of water--Pipe lines--Table of resistance in pipes...

5. Chapter 5

Electricity compared to the heat and light of the Sun--The simple dynamo--The amount of electric energy a dynamo will generate--The modern dynamo--Measuring power in terms of el...

3. Chapter 3

What is a horsepower?--How the Carthaginians manufactured horsepower--All that goes up must come down--How the sun lifts water up for us to use--Water the ideal power for genera...

11. Chapter 11

What a storage battery does--The lead battery and the Edison battery--Economy of tungsten lamps for storage batteries--The low-voltage battery for electric light--How to figure...

8. Chapter 8

The insurance code--Different kinds of wiring described--Wooden moulding cheap and effective--The distributing panel--Branch circuits--Protecting the circuits--The use of porcel...

2. Chapter 2

Small amount of water required for an electric plant--Exploring, on a dull day--A rough and ready weir--What a little water will do--The water wheel and the dynamo--Electricity...

9. Chapter 9

Direct-connected generating sets--Belt drive--The switchboard--Governors and voltage regulators--Methods of achieving constant pressure at all loads: Over-compounding the dynamo...

6. Chapter 6

The farmer's wife his partner--Little and big plants--Limiting factors--Fluctuations in water supply--The average plant--The actual plant--Amount of current required for various...

7. Chapter 7

Copper wire--Setting of poles--Loss of power in transmission--Ohm's Law and examples of how it is used in figuring size of wire--Copper-wire tables--Examples of transmission lin...

10. Chapter 10

1. Chapter 1