More power - and what it means to you

more power INSTALLING GENERATING PLANT Lowering the top-half casing of the steam turbine—one of the exacting operations in the final stages of the assembly of a turbo- alternator. Each of these giant machines consists of thousands of parts, which may weigh anything from 40 tons to a few ounces —AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR YOU TURBO-ALTERNATORS are the machines that generate electricity. They look im- maculate, apparently motionless. Yet their huge, many-ton rotors revolve fifty times every second—3,000 revolutions a minute! A single 60,000 kilowatt turbo-alternator can produce enough electric power for a town of 200,000 people.