Excerpt from Specifications for the New Waterside Power House of the New York Edison Company: New York, July 1907 These specifications are intended to cover in a general way the construction contracts of the New Waterside, now known as the Waterside No. 2 power house, although the general clauses have been omitted in order to save space. It was thought advisable in the design of the station to pro vide for either vertical reciprocating engines or for either or both of two types of steam turbine units of the maximum sizes then developed, thus necessitating a compromise between the demands of the various designs; and the operating room was laid out to contain twelve k. W. Vertical engines, or sixteen k. W. Vertical turbine units, or twelve k. W. Horizontal turbine units. Further developments in the turbine field and certain operating conditions have determined the final layout. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.