Lanterna Rally

Author: Dugald Clerk

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Published: 2015-08-05

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9781332233946

Excerpt from Water-Power in the British Empire: The Reports of the Water-Power Committee of the Conjoint Board of Scientific Societies In the first census of production for the year 1907, the total power of industrial engines in use in Great Britain and Ireland is given as 10,578,475 h.p., and the steam-engine power of road rollers and road locomotives owned by public authorities amounted to 167,192 h.p. Of the industrial engines, steam-reciprocating engines were rated at 9,118,818 h.p.; steam turbines, 530,892; internal-combustion engines, gas, oil, etc. 680,177; and water-power, 177,907 h.p. The persons employed in the factories using this large power numbered nearly 101/2 millions; so that, roughly, the power available for the industries of Britain was nearly 1 h.p. per person employed. To support the 46 millions of people now living in the United Kingdom thus requires a continuous enormous expenditure of power, and a very large consumption of fuel. The present position of the coal question is supposed by some to be very temporary, and it is hoped that shortly we may resume our former fortunate state when coal was plentiful and motive power and heating very economical from the money viewpoint. The coal position of the world, however, must deteriorate from decade to decade, and it might be of advantage to consider our position in a coalless and oilless world. The position of Great Britain and the Empire is, however, sufficient for us. The combined report of the Water-Power Committee of the Conjoint Board of Scientific Societies considers Great Britain and the Empire in relation to the main alternative to fuel - that is, water-power. 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.