More successful and profitable than attempts to create gold from mercury is the actual creation of electricity at Hartford, Conn. The Hartford Electric Light Co. has been using a mercury-vapor turbine to run its generators since 1923. That turbine was shut down while last week a second was prepared for operation. William Le Roy Emmet of General Electric Co. invented and developed the machines. General Electric built them.
Steam, or water vapor, operates a piston or turbine by the fall in its temperature. The higher the vapor is heated, the greater the pressure...
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