Abstract
THIS book forms one of a series of little volumes which are being issued under the title of “Encyclopédie Industrielle,” and treats of the principles of hydraulics and their applications, which possess an enhanced importance in view of the recent great extension of the employment of water-power for industrial purposes, resulting from the discovery that it can be economically transmitted to a distance when converted into an electric current. Thus, by the development of electrical transmission, it is now practicable to use waterfalls and water stored up in reservoirs, in remote mountain valleys, as sources of power for towns, of which the Falls of Niagara, supplying electrical energy to Buffalo, furnish so notable an instance; and the author has given the name of “La Houille Blanche,” or white coal, to this source of power.
Précis d'Hydraulique—La Houille Blanche.
By Raymond Busquet. Pp. viii + 375. (Paris: J. B. Baillière et Fils, 1905.) Price 5 francs.
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Précis d'Hydraulique—La Houille Blanche . Nature 72, 427 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/072427a0
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