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WHAT is power, and why should we wish to transmit it? Power has one very definite meaning in science, and several rather vague meanings in practice. We speak of a powerful athlete, the power of the law; we sing of the power of love; we say knowledge is power, and so on, using the word in several different senses. Now, in spite of the fact that a general audience feels a little anxious as to what troubles may be in store for it when a lecturer begins by being painfully exact, my telling you that by power an engineer understands the rate of doing work will not, I hope, make you fear that my remarks will bristle with technicalities.
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The Electric Transmission of Power 1 . Nature 38, 508–511 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/038508a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/038508a0