Ghost Town That Came To Life - Allis Chambers | Published
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Cover
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Genre
Non-fiction
Comic Story
The Ghost Town That Came To Life (14 pages)
Synopsis
Explains the history of electricity and the various machinery used in its production and distribution.
Genre
Non-fiction
Characters
Nancy; Andy; Nancy and Andy's father; Nancy and Andy's mother; Allesandro Volta; Andre Ampere; unnamed narrator
Notes
Title taken from the cover. Distributed by various public electric utilities, including Consumers Power Company, and Johnstone & Cushing (in New York). This information is at bottom of one of the pages (for Johnstone it is found on page 14).
The bottom 1/3 tiers of pages 4-13 feature "For Your Science Notebook", an illustrated feature covering such topics as volts (mentioning Michael Faraday, and Allesandro Volta, who is pictured), amphere (Andre Amphere shown), watt, steam turbine & steam turbine spindle, turbine generator, generator, bus bar, circuit breaker, how an electric utility operates, transformer, fuse, ohm and the meter.
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Synopsis
Shows various electrical equipment made by Allis-Chalmers, located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, including: the steam turbine-generator, power transformer, circuit breaker, local sub-station, pole transformer, and the distributor regulator..
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