Bell telephone magazine (1922) (14569507658)

Identifier: belltelephonemag4344amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1965
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive



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telephone basi-ness. An industry that has experiencedthis much growth has to add as muchnew capacity each year now as it hadin the entire system back in the earlyThirties. And if this keeps up, as mostforecastere say it will, they can lookahead to the year 2000 and expect to bebuilding as much new generating capac-ity each year as there is in the wholesystem today. Here, certainly, is no smallchallenge for the future. A continuing program of technical im-provements and advances is necessary tomeet this steadily increasing consumptionof electric power. Scientists and engineers This Viri^inia Electric and Power Co. stationin Richmond, which was built in 1899,first i>enerated power mainly for streetcars. f ^^^^^H v^ .^H^^l Symbolic of growth in the power industry is the new Chesterfield Power Station operated byVirginia Electric and Power Company. Now the companys most powerful generating station,Chesterfield produces over 731,000 liilowatts for the Richmond-Petersburg-Hopewell area.
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Electric Power Industry in the electric power industry are con-tinuing to press foi-ward with larger andmore efficient generating units and withtransmission lines of high voltage andgreater efficiency. Compare the 50,000kilowatt generating plant of the 1930swith a modern 700,000 kilowatt stationsuch as the Chasterfield Station of theVirginia Electric and Power Company.Compare the typical hydroelectric sta-tion of the 20s, with the mighty powerdams of today. Such great increases inthe capacity of individual power plantsare accompanied by a steady downwardtrend in the cost for each kilowatt ofcapacity installed, helping in turn tomake possible lower rates and even morewidespread use of electric power. Evenlarger generating units are projected forthe future. And nuclear power plants willtake their place in the scheme of things,too; several companies have announced SAN oFRANCISCO