55 street lights of 25 candle power each... street lights to be kept burning until 1:30 o'clock, a.m., for at least 20 nights in each lunar month... |
In March 1997, Mr. Jim Sangster told me that Mr. Phillip Mosher (above) is the grandfather of Mr. Medford Mosher, who in the 1950s worked as a professional engineer in the Engineering Department of the Nova Scotia Light & Power Co. in Halifax. ICS |
A gasometer was a large tank used for the storage of manufactured gas. The manufacturing process (in this case roasting coal) was carried on continuously, 24 hours a day, but the consumption of the gas occurred mostly between dusk and midnight. The manufacturing equipment's capacity to produce gas could be substantially less than the peak use of gas between dusk and 9 to 10 o'clock in the evening, provided the gas company had a way to store gas produced during the day for use in the evening. A gasometer was the usual storage method. |
The "Edison company" referred to was the Edison General Electric Company. Later this name was changed to Canadian General Electric Company – a large manufacturer of electrical equipment, with its principal factory located in Peterborough, Ontario since about 1890. |
The article above refers to "the first time the Edison system of incandescent electric lighting has been shown in the Province, Windsor being the first town to introduce it in Nova Scotia." Electric lighting had been in regular operation in Truro and Halifax, and several other locations in the province, for about a decade at that time, so this was not the first use of electric lighting in Nova Scotia, and this article makes no such claim. The earlier installations, such as that in Truro, used electric arc lighting technology, which is very different from incandescent electric lighting. As far as I know, this claim is correct, that the first installation in Nova Scotia of street lighting by incandescent electric lamps was turned on in Windsor on Monday, September 22, 1890. This was a direct current system, as were all Edison installations at that time and for many years thereafter. The street lights likely were connected in series, while the lamps inside buildings were connected in parallel. The street lighting system is believed to have been supplied on a separate circuit, independent of the "domestic" system. ICS |
A total generated output of 151,950 kW·h indicates the Windsor EL&P's peak load was about 50 to 60 kilowatts, during the year 1921. |
Wayback Machine http://web.archive.org/index.html "Use the Wayback Machine to view web sites from the past." Windsor Gas Light Company Windsor Electric Light & Power Company The Wayback Machine has copies of this webpage from the early days: Archived: 1999 April 17 http://web.archive.org/web/19990417153926/http://www.alts.net/ns1625/electr03.html Archived: 1999 September 22 http://web.archive.org/web/19990922032414/http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/300/nova_scotias_electronic_attic/07-04-09/www.littletechshoppe.com/ns1625electr03.html Archived: 1999 November 22 http://web.archive.org/web/19991122073040/http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/300/nova_scotias_electronic_attic/07-04-09/www.littletechshoppe.com/ns1625electr03.html Archived: 2000 February 7 http://web.archive.org/web/20000207220147/http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/300/nova_scotias_electronic_attic/07-04-09/www.littletechshoppe.com/ns1625electr03.html Archived: 2000 June 15 http://web.archive.org/web/20000615085929/http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/300/nova_scotias_electronic_attic/07-04-09/www.littletechshoppe.com/ns1625electr03.html Archived: 2000 October 15 http://web.archive.org/web/20001015184522/http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/300/nova_scotias_electronic_attic/07-04-09/www.littletechshoppe.com/ns1625electr03.html Archived: 2001 April 20 http://web.archive.org/web/20010420110245/http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/300/nova_scotias_electronic_attic/07-04-09/www.littletechshoppe.com/ns1625electr03.html Archived: 2001 June 24 http://web.archive.org/web/20010624121201/http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/300/nova_scotias_electronic_attic/07-04-09/www.littletechshoppe.com/ns1625electr03.html |
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