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More power - and what it means to you

1 Jan 1950

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.
electricity infrastructure construction factories industrial equipment industrial production industry fuel utilities domestic life
Collection ID
HATOM
Document Reference
HATOM/3/211
Document Types
Ephemera
File Reference
HATOM/3
Identifier
10.1080/wtss.hatom.000003.211
Keywords
Construction Electricity Factories Industrial Equipment Industrial Production Industry
Language
English
Note
Advert located on bottom half of page.
Pages
1
Published in
United Kingdom
Series
History of Advertising Trust: O&M wartime book no 3
Themes
Industry Infrastructure Domestic Life Fuel Utilities

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