[D8933ACB], Letter from Henry Augustus Rowland to Edward Dean Adams, November 1st, 1889
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- Title
- [D8933ACB], Letter from Henry Augustus Rowland to Edward Dean Adams, November 1st, 1889
- Editor's Notes
- [AC/DC] ]Enclosure to D8933ABZ] Dear Sir:--####Since writing my last letter I have received a letter from the Westinghouse Company about the lighting of Buffalo and Tonawanda. The latter can be accomplished by the use of a higher potential than the Westinghouse Company use. The Brush Company have both an arc and incandescent system of very high potential and the Company make a success of anything they undertake. So far as I have been able to calculate, the lighting of Tonawanda would pay a little better than to use a steam plant there but even that is uncertain.#####As to local distribution of power, my figures are now running from $35 to $45 for a radius of 2 miles. It seems more and more certain that electric transmission cannot compete with LARGE steam engines beyond five miles.
- Author
- Rowland, Henry Augustus
- Recipient
- Adams, Edward Dean
- Date
- 1889-11-01
- Type
- Letter
- Subject
- Financial operations (companies and organizations)
- Arc lighting
- Electrical distribution system
- Folder ID
- D8933-F
- Microfilm ID
- 126:116
- Document ID
- D8933ACB
- Publisher
- Thomas A. Edison Papers, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University
- Has Version
- Archive.org Viewer, Microfilm Series Reel 126