Electricity for the farm Light, heat and power by inexpensive methods from the water wheel or farm engine

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...

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...

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...

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--...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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--...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...