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Professor E. H. Armstrong of Columbia, the inventor of F.M., gave the Lowell Broadcasting Council its three kilowatt transmitter...
...supply as well. the Nuclear Laboratory uses so much power that a new sub-station had to be built. (The University buys its electricity at very high voltage and builds all the sub-stations to step it down. It is cheaper that way.) The Laboratory also sports a 250 kilowatt generator to supply the DC power for the cyclotron's magnetic field...
...Loch Sloy scheme is the most ambitious hydroelectric project ever completed in Britain. Its quarter-mile-long dam pens up more than 1,000,000 cubic feet of water. It is expected to have an annual output of 115 million kilowatt-hours, most of which will be sold to Scotland's industrial Lowlands. Profits will subsidize lesser schemes which will eventually bring electricity to all Scotland...
...government building which would do credit to most British colonies, developed deepwater ports at Keelung and Kaohsiung. Throughout the island Japanese engineers built 2,463 miles of railway, 11,300 miles of good road. They harnessed Formosa's short, swift-flowing rivers, built a large 300,000-kilowatt hydroelectric power station at Jihyuehu (Sun-Moon Lake). For other power sources, they worked Formosa's coal deposits, believed to total 400 million metric tons, and exploited her oil, refining it at the rate of 5,000 gallons of gasoline...
...rate of reaction of a pile is measured in kilowatts, so Thirring calculates how much war-useful radioactivity could be produced per kilowatt. The answer comes out in curies, the unit of radioactivity, and Thirring figures that for each kilowatt a pile produces in a month 250 curies of radioactive poisons...