[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.
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Date
1889-11-01
Type
Subject
Folder/Volume ID
D8933-F
Microfilm ID
126:116
Document ID
D8933ACB
Publisher
Thomas A. Edison Papers, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University