Friday, 25 September 2015

STEAM AND ELECTRICITY POWER

STEAM AND ELECTRICITY POWER


STEAM AND ELECTRICITY
POWER
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Courtesy, Central Electricity Board Films
WHERE THE SAME STEAM IS USED MANY TIMES
This is the Harris Hall Generating Station at Birmingham, showing the large cooling towers. After the steam has emerged from the condensers it is cooled in these towers and then pumped back into the boilers to do its work over and over aeain.
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Courtesy, Central Electricity Board Films
THE POWER THAT LIGHTS THE MYRIAD LAMPS OF LONDON
Above we see a turbo-generator at Battersea Power Station The blades of the turbine are propelled by steam and generate enormous power to light the interiors of homes and work the power plants of the factories of London’s southern area.
STEAM AND ELECTRICITY
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Courtesy, Central Electricity Board. Films
WHERE THE SAME STEAM IS USED MANY TIMES
POWER
This is the Harris Hall Generating Station at Birmingham, showing the large cooling towers. After the steam has emerged from the condensers it is cooled in these towers and then pumped back into the boilers to do its work over and over aeain.
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Courtesy, Central Electricity Board Films
THE POWER THAT LIGHTS THE MYRIAD LAMPS OF LONDON
Above we see a turbo-generator at Battersea Power Station The blades of the turbine are propelled by steam and generate enormous power to light the interiors of homes and work the power plants of the factories of London’s southern area.


past persceptions


A DARKIE DOES A STEP DANCE
DANCES OF MANY LANDS
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Wide World
Step-dancing to banjo and violin is a favourite amusement of the plantation negroes of the Southern States of U.S.A. Seated on bales of cotton, the players urge the dancers to ever quicker movements, while the bowler-hatted fellow claps.
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e.n.a .
THE DANCE OF THE SHEPHERDS
Here is another seasonal dance. Czechoslovakian peasants perform their ceremonial dance at the end of sheap-shearing. The ceremony is attended by all sorts of quaint, superstitious and semi-religious rites. Note the model of a church.
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