Increase of electric power in factories and homes

In his Annual Report of the Department of Commerce Secretary Hoover states that there has been a large increase in the application of electrical power in manufacturing, and while there has been an increase during this period of between five and six million horse power used in factory production, there has been no increase in boilers and engines installed within these plants, the increase having been made almost entirely by electrical motors operated through purchased power. There has also been a transformation from direct-connected steam equipment within factories to factory electrical generation for distribution throughout the plants until at the present moment apparently 70 per cent of factory power is delivered to the machines electrically.