Excerpt from Monthly Bulletin, Vol. 13: May, 1910 With the development of electric power during the past quarter century, the electrical utilization and transmission of water-power to supply light, power and transportation has been an attractive dream, and, to a considerable extent, a practical reality. Progress in this direction has been slower than anticipated for two reasons. First - The direct-current moderate-voltage system required such an excessive quantity of wire to transmit power any conside crable distance, as to make the cost commercially prohibitive. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.