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Eugene C. Whitney
Pages 248-251

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... It revealed that when Benjamin Lamme designed the electrical machines for Niagara Falls, they were four times larger than any electrical machines that had ever been built. When Edwin Harder mentioned this to Gene Whitney, he said, '~es, that's right until I built the Grand Coulee machines.
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... Thereafter the upper reservoir was refilled every weekend and drawn down clay by day throughout the week (partially refilled at night) , to provide peaking power for the Philadelphia Electric system.
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