Image: Image from page 817 of "Popular electricity magazine in plain English" (1912) (14578993768)

Description: Identifier: popularelectric619131chic Title: Popular electricity magazine in plain English Year: 1912 (1910s) Authors: Subjects: Electricity Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Popular Electricity Pub. Co. Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: Text Appearing After Image: fk Malacca Business Street MALAYS ENJOY LIGHTS We are indebted to Mr. P. M. Robin-son, an electrical engineer in Singapore,for the description and pictures of the firstelectric light and power plant installed inMalay Peninsula. It serves the town ofMalacca which though small is now grow-ing rapidly on account of the rubber in-dustry. The site of the plant was originally acoconut plantation. One of the first pre-cautions taken was to secure a substantialfoundation and to do this it was neces-sary to use a good deal of piling on ac-count of the nature of the soil. The roofs of some of the buildings are ofconcrete and as a consequence their in-terior is quite cool even in the hottestweather. Metal filament lamps are usedto light the plant which is capable of fur-nishing 87 horsepower and while thisseems small by comparison with thelarger city plants of this country it isample at present for the needs of Malacca. The current is distributed over a threewire system of bare copper wire carri Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
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