SCIENCE 



AN ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL PUBLISHED WEEKLY. 



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NEW YORK: N. D. C. HODGES. 



FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, \i 



ELECTRIC LIGHTING. — A MODEL CENTRAL STATION. 

 Experience has shown that to attain the best commercial re- 

 sults in electric lighting, the final expression of which comes out in 



station, the reduced plan and elevations herewith, of a simple and 

 efficient station, will be found of interest. The station is that of 

 the East End Electric Light Company, at East Liberty, Penn., op- 

 erating the Westinghouse alternate-current system of distribution. 

 The service from this station covers a very extended area, com- 

 prising the business portion of the city, which lies within an average 

 distance of half a mile from the station, ramifying through an ex- 

 tended series of residence streets of the better class, and carrying 



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WESTINGHOU=:e ELECTRIC-LIGHT 



SIDE-ELEVATION OF WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC-LIGHT STATION AT EAST LIBERTY, 



dividends, too much care and knowledge cannot be brought to bear 

 upon the steam and electrical engineering involved in the construc- 

 tion of the plant, from the foundations of the building, to the lamp 

 wired on the premises of the consumer. The conditions, however, 

 are found so varied in different localities that it is manifestly im- 

 possible to establish any fixed rules. As an illustration, however, 

 which seems to contain the essential ideas of a well-considered 



one special line out as far as the distant suburb of Swissvale, the 

 last lamp being at a distance of four miles and a quarter from the 

 dynamo. 



The arrangement of the station is clearly indicated. It is a sub- 

 stantial but inexpensive one-story building of brick, containing the 

 offices of the company and the storeroom for material, in addition 

 to the dynamo and boiler room. The plant at present has an ag- 



