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Title: Electricity for the farm
Light, heat and power by inexpensive methods from the water
wheel or farm engine

Author: Frederick Irving Anderson

Release Date: November 14, 2008 [EBook #27257]

Language: English

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ELECTRICITY FOR THE FARM

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

NEW YORK . BOSTON . CHICAGO . DALLAS
ATLANTA . SAN FRANCISCO

MACMILLAN & CO., Limited
LONDON . BOMBAY . CALCUTTA . MELBOURNE

THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, Ltd.
TORONTO

[Illustration: Even the tiny trout brook becomes a thing of utility
as well as of joy

(_Courtesy of the Fitz Water Wheel Company, Hanover, Pa._)]

ELECTRICITY FOR
THE FARM

LIGHT, HEAT AND POWER BY INEXPENSIVE
METHODS FROM THE WATER
WHEEL OR FARM ENGINE

BY
FREDERICK IRVING ANDERSON

AUTHOR OF "THE FARMER OF TO-MORROW," ETC., ETC.

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1915

_All rights reserved_

Copyright, 1915
By THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
The Country Gentleman

Copyright, 1915
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
Set up and electrotyped. Published April, 1915.

PREFACE

This book is designed primarily to give the farmer a practical working
knowledge of electricity for use as light, heat, and power on the
farm. The electric generator, the dynamo, is explained in detail; and
there are chapters on electric transmission and house-wiring, by which
the farm mechanic is enabled to install his own plant without the aid
and expense of an expert.

With modern appliances, within the means of the average farmer, the
generation of electricity, with its unique conveniences, becomes
automatic, provided some dependable source of power is to be had--such
as a water wheel, gasoline (or other form of internal combustion)
engi