The applicability of electrical power to industrial establishments

In two papers on electrical power for factory purposes which were published 14 years ago in the Journal of the Western Society of Engineers and the Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, respectively, I set forth the status of the then rather new practice of utilizing electrical power distribution in manufacturing establishments. In this paper, I propose to describe the present status of electrical power in factories, and will point out certain remarkable changes which have arisen on account of improvements in methods of using electrical power and improvements in prime movers adapted to driving electrical generators.