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AN interesting analysis of the problem of the transmission of power is contained in a paper read by Mr. G. Constantinesco before the North-East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders on December 4. The author is well known in engineering circles as the inventor of the method of transmitting energy by “wave transmission,” in which the liquid does not circulate. He formulates the following fundamental laws governing any transmission of power: (i) Energy can be transmitted from one point to another only at the expense of a definite loss. (2) There is a minimum loss in any given system or method of transmission which cannot be decreased by any conceivable improvement in the system. (3) The transport of energy is possible only by circulation or oscillation, and there is a minimum amount of matter necessary for such transport. Such minimum is also independent of present or future methods of transmission, and depends only on the amount of energy, distance of transport, and change of form of the energy.
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Transmission of Power. Nature 116, 918–919 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116918a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/116918a0