Box 7
Container
Contains 44 Results:
Publications: Information Booklets on Electric Plants and Supply Companies, 1903-1955
File — Box: 7, Folder: 41
Scope and Contents
Includes: "State Historical Landmark No. 514 Pomona Water Plant" (1955), "Ouray: The Gem of the Rockies" (1903), "Adventures in Power: A Fact History of Westinghouse" (1936, two copies with slightly different format), "The Electrical Plant of the Ontario Power Company" (1906), "Allgemeine Elektricitaets-Gesellschaft Berlin" (1893)
Dates:
1903-1955
Publications: Scientific Papers Published by Others, 1887-1958
File — Box: 7, Folder: 42
Scope and Contents
Includes: "Distribution of Electricity by Secondary Generators" (1887), "Discriminating Lightning Arresters and Recent Progress in Means for Protection Against Lightning" (1894), "Harold P. Brown and the Executioner's Current: an Incident in the AC-DC Controversy" (1958), "The Maximum Distance to which Power can be Economically Transmitted" (1904), "Drop in Alternating Current Lines" (1897), "Polyphase Transmission" (1894), "The Induction Motor and the Rotary Converter and their Relation to...
Dates:
1887-1958
Westinghouse Electric Company Price List, 1890
File — Box: 7, Folder: 43
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
From the Collection:
Correspondence; photographs and negatives; maps, blueprints, and specifications; clippings; addresses and lectures; printed material; reports; constitution, by-laws, and amendments; financial records; applications; minutes; and other papers documenting the career of Lucien L. Nunn, his founding and direction of the Telluride Association, and the development of the electrical power industry in the United States, including information concerning the Telluride Motor Company, Telluride Power...
Dates:
1890
Hydro Power, 2014
File — Box: 7
Identifier: DVD-2005
Scope and Contents
Excerpt from what was originally issued as disc 5 of the Rocky Mountain PBS series Colorado Experience, season 2. Describes how L.L. Nunn saved the mining business in Telluride, Colorado by financing the Ames Hydroelectric Generating Plant, the first in the world to generate alternating current electric power for industrial purposes. Soon hydroelectric plants appeared across the United States and the world.
Dates:
2014