Excerpt from Natural Sources of Power

Two departments of engineering and their applications to industry form the subjects of the following pages. While the subject of water power (which occupies the first and greater half of the volume) would be conceded to be more important than that of wind power, the latter has a wider application at the present time than is popularly assigned to it, for the demand for windmills was never so great as it is to-day, nor the trade of the manufacturer of such motors never so brisk, and there are unmistakable signs of abnormal expansion in the direction of their useful application in the great agricultural countries of the world. The author cannot be charged with any attempt to appraise the relative value to the industrial world of two natural sources of power so widely different in distribution and.

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