 | American Philosophical Society - Electronic journals - 1808 - 622 pages
...construct them. 1 Lord Kelvin proposed, in determining the size of conductors tor electricity, that the most economical area of conductor is that for which the annual cost of energy wasted is equal to the interest on that portion of the capital outlay which can be considered... | |
 | Gisbert Kapp - Electric power production - 1886 - 374 pages
...annual cost of energy wasted. By writing the above equation in the form p(K—Ko) = W, we find that the most economical area of conductor is that for which the annual cost of energy wasted is equal to the annual interest on that portion of the capital outlay which can... | |
 | Francis Beatus Badt - Electric power distribution - 1891 - 130 pages
....outlay which does not depend on the area of the .conductor. "Hence uie should state more correctly that the most economical area of conductor is that for which the annual cost of energy wasted is equal to the annual interest on that portion of the capital outlay which can... | |
 | Park Benjamin - Machinery - 1892 - 970 pages
...outlay which does not depend on the area of the couductor. Hence we should state more correctly that the most economical area of conductor is that for which the annual cost of energy wasted is equal to the annual interest on that portion of the capital outlay which can... | |
 | Chemistry - 1897 - 486 pages
...conclusion reached by him, and now known as " Kelvin's Law," may be stated in the following language : The most economical area of conductor is that for which the annual interest on capital outlay equals the annual cost of energy wasted. In other words, the total annual expenditure... | |
 | Chemistry - 1897 - 604 pages
...proportional to the cross-section of the conductor should be kept separate so that the amended law becomes : The most economical area of conductor is that for which the annual cost of energy wasted is equal to the annual interest on that portion of the capital outlay which is... | |
 | Horatio Alvah Foster - Electrical engineering - 1901 - 1018 pages
...conductor, a condition seldom obtaining in practice, and states the correct rule as follows : — " The most economical area of conductor is that for which the annual cost of energy wasted is equal to the annual interest 011 that portion of the capital outlay which... | |
 | Frank Koester - Hydroelectric power plants - 1909 - 508 pages
...known by that name. The usual way of stating it is: " The most economical area of conductor will be that for which the annual interest on the capital outlay equals the annual cost of the energy wasted." A more precise statement of the same thing is given by Gisbert Kapp,1 " The most economical... | |
 | William Arthur Del Mar - Electric wire - 1913 - 412 pages
...expenses. Kapp has made Kelvin's law of more universal application by changing it to the following form: " The most economical area of conductor is that for which the annual cost of energy wasted is equal to the annual interest on that portion of the capital outlay which can... | |
 | Frank Koester - Hydroelectric power plants - 1909 - 506 pages
...cost of the energy wasted." A more precise statement of the same thing is given by Gisbert Kapp,* " The most economical area of conductor is that for which the annual cost of the energy wasted is equal to the interest on that portion of the capital outlay which can... | |
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The most economical area of conductor is that for which the annual cost of energy wasted is equal to the interest on that portion of the capital outlay which can be considered proportional to the weight of copper used. 
