Pacific Gas and Electric magazine (1912) (14597284678)

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Title: Pacific Gas and Electric magazine

Year: 1909 (1900s)

Authors: Pacific Gas and Electric Company

Subjects: Pacific Gas and Electric Company Electric utilities Public utilities

Publisher: (San Francisco, Calif.) : Pacific Gas and Electric Co.

Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library

Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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er for the tanks,which is changed every day, as well as to fur-nish hot water and steam for the laundrywhere the several hundred towels and bathingsuits are cleansed. In the beginning an en-gine and a generator were installed to furnishlight for ths building and a small engine to operate the several machines needed. Thiswas a very good combination, but it had manyuneconomical as well as inconvenient features,namely, running of boiler plants when heatingand laundry work were finished so as to beready when lighting load came on, operatingthe whole plant when only a few lights wereneeded, and a great many other things toonumerous to mention. With the central station service now in-stalled all this is changed, as it is now possibleto use any number of lights from one to thewhole number at any time, and also to use allsorts of electric apparatus, such as electrichair dryers, electric warming pads, sewing ma-chines, and many other electric devices. In making this change the entire power and

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