GIGANTIC GENERATOR
WORLD'S BIGGEST l)R!T POWER FOR MILLION HOMES A gigantic electric generator .of 1-15,000 horse-power, capable of furnishing electric lighting current for 1 000,000 homes, has been ordered by tiro Brooklyn Edison Company for its Hudson avenue generating station in Brooklyn. The generator will be built by the Westinghouso Electric and Manufacturing Company, and was described as being the largest generating unit that the concern has ever undertaken to build. Special railroad cars will have to bo built to transport the larger pieces of tho unit from the plant in East Pittsburgh to New York. Also a special route will need to be laid out for the cars to take care of tunnel clearances and railroad bridge capacities. The Hudson avenue station of the Brooklyn Edison Company is one of the most completely-equipped generating stations in the United States. _ Its ultimate capacity will be approximately 1,000,000 horse-power, or, in terms of electrical energy, one kilowatt for every quarter of a square foot of area. This is more than double the power concentration of its nearest competitor, Matthew g>. Sloan, president of the company, said. The company’s newest unit, which was put into operation a few months ago, is of 108,000 horsepower capacity, and is the largest unit now in operation in this country, Mr Sloan declared. “Some idea of tho tremendous capacity, of tho new generator just ordered can be obtained from the fact that it will be able to furnish enough current required for the domestic supply of the cities of Chicago and Brooklyn combined,” Mr Sloan continued. The overall length of. the new unit will be 80ft, width 35ft Sin, height 84ft 3in. The total weight will he 2,230,0001 b, while the weight of the largest
will lie 210,0001 b. It will be nine, months before any part of the unit is ready for shipment, and another four months will be required to assemble and install the generator at the plant. The new generator is expected to be in
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Evening Star, Issue 19663, 16 September 1927, Page 2
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332GIGANTIC GENERATOR Evening Star, Issue 19663, 16 September 1927, Page 2
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