Excerpt from Westinghouse Turbo-Alternators: April, 1912 While the Westinghouse Machine Company commenced its turbine work under the American patents of the Honorable Charles A. Parsons, which it purchased outright, it has been no mere copyist, but has from the first worked along original and progressive lines. For example, it first demonstrated the practicability of single - cylinder units of large powers. In 1901, it built and installed for the Hartford Electric Light Power Company, Hartford, Conn., a turbine of 2000 kilowatts capacity in one cylinder. Up to that time no single cylinder turbine of larger than 500 kilowatts capacity had been built, and even with separate high and low-pressure cylinders, 1000 kilowatts was then the record size. Notwithstanding predictions of failure, this machine broke down the barriers of ultra-conservatism, and established the confidence that has made possible the mammoth engines that are in common use today. It has made the Company willing to assume the responsibility for the still larger units that are in contemplation. 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.