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Title: Factory and industrial management
Year: 1891 (1890s)
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Subjects: Engineering Factory management Industrial efficiency
Publisher: New York (etc.) McGraw-Hill (etc.)
Contributing Library: Engineering - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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FIG. 5. NEGATIVE PLAIES, ELEClkiC SiOR.vOiLBATTERY CO. ated before the storagesvstem w a s installed. 848 THE ENGINEERING MAGAZINE
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FIG. BATTERY ROOM, VANDYCK AND SEVERNElectric Storage Battery Co. APARTMENT HOUSES. As to the labor, where a plant is operated 24 hours a day forother purposes than generating electricity, there will probablybe no cavine in labor, except in maintenance of engines, but where aplant need operate only part of the 24 hours, and can then be shutdown, leaving the storage system to supply the energy the rest ofthe period, the reduction in labor may become the most importantsaving obtained by the installation of the storage system. STORAGE BATTERIES. 849 So far in this discussion the term Storage System has beenused because the results mentioned, with the exception of the labor-saving item, would apply to any system of storing energy. There have been other systems proposed, such as storage of hotwater under pressure to supplement the boilers at peak-load periods.This system is not practical, and would not equalize the load on theengine and dynamo, nor would it take care of the short period in

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