Essays on the history of thermal power industry. Part 2

This book is the second part of the essays that continues the publication of a series of articles on the history of heat power industry. In 1895, in St. Petersburg on the 12th line of the Vasilievsky Island, the central power station N.V. Smirnova with a capacity of 800 kW, a variable voltage of 2000 V. In 2020, was 125 years old, this significant event was released. Despite the competition in the person of K.F. Siemens and a number of famous electrical equipment, the station of engineer Smirnova has established itself as one of the most effective and successful stations of its time.
The history of its creation, the technical features of the equipment, its systems, the characteristics of economy, the composition of the construction participants are still of unconditional interest. All these topics are devoted to a real book