Power generation

Philip Torchio: Electrical engineers should have particular interest in following the development of the size of the generators. The report states that there is a 208,000-kw. unit under construction. It should have said that it consists of three machines cross-compound. If I remember rightly, the largest single unit in operation in the New York Edison 60,000-kw. The Edison-United Companies have a large cross-compound 160,000-kw. unit on order and placed an order June 21 for a 165,000-kw. unit. The generators of the unit order last year are, one, 85,000-kw. and the other 75,000-kw. and, for the unit ordered yesterday, the generators will be 80,000-kw. each.