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Hydro-Electric Power In Brigham City, Utah: Its Growth And Development, Reed Anderson Olsen
Hydro-Electric Power In Brigham City, Utah: Its Growth And Development, Reed Anderson Olsen
All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023
One of man's most useful servants is electrical power. Technological advances have made it the greatest source of industrial power we have in the world today. The evolution of electrical power paralleled the development of our great American economic system. Like the development of mechanization, the growth of power was a long, drawn-out process. Man power was replaced with water power; water power was replaced with team , electricity, oil and natural gas. Eventually these sources may be replaced with atomic power.
Although the steam engine was a vast improvement over water power, there continued a need for transmitting energy …