Lanterna Rally

Author: Albert Gay

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-15

Total Pages: 565

ISBN-13: 9781330077542

Excerpt from Central Station Electricity Supply: An Introduction to the Study Electric Lighting already possesses an extensive literature, and those who have been engaged as electrical engineers for many years are necessarily acquainted with the writings of a large number of well-known professional men. Very few attempts have been made, nevertheless, to include in one work the leading points peculiar to the inception and carrying on of a public supply of electricity under statutory powers in this country. It has been said that books on engineering subjects are too often prepared by the wrong people, and that they therefore deal with things as it seems to the mind of the writer they should be, rather than as they are. A well-known writer has expressed the opinion that "the great fault in electrical books generally is that they are usually written by the wrong man. A book on electric lighting should be written by an experienced electric light engineer, not by some one who wants to found a reputation as an engineer on his book on the subject. Similarly a book on dynamos should be written by a designer of dynamos, and so on." In the case of the present volume we hope that this fault does not apply. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.