It was during the anxious years of World Was II, when a very serious power shortage developed, that it occurred to me just how dependent our nation has become upon the great source of energy--Electricity.
   Not many years ago any company of any size had their engine room, boiler room and a large storage space for fuel. The investment was considerable for the equipment, and seplacement cost every few years ran very high.
   Skilled help had to be kept constantly in attendance to assure the proper functioning of the engines which provided power for the production machinery in the plants. The space and buildings required for such power p;ants kept many small companies from producing their own products.
   Electricity has changed all of this.
   After Electricity was discovered the methods were devised for producing it with the dynamo, and motors were invented where by this new form of energy could be converted into to power, the machines formerly run by belts from line shafts turned by power derived from steam engines slowly began to disappear. The old power plants were dismantled and junked, Each of the production machines in the plant got their own individual motor. The machine operator can now turn the power on and off for his own machine. There are no more shut downs of complete plants for cleanout and repairs to the power plants. A motor goes bad on a machine, it only stops the one machine, not the entire plant. This saved a great deal of money and speeded up production greatly.
  This all pleased the stockholders and owners of the industrial plants and the use of electric power increased by leaps and bounds.
  Small power plants for producing electricity sprang up all over the country. Every small village, every town and of course the cities had their own plants, for transmission lines were not in existence yet.
  Before many years the big cities were enlarging their power plants, their distribution of electricity extending further and further as new inventions in the field made it possible.
  Through experimentation and experience it was found to be more economical to produce electricity in huge power plants with monstreous generators, and then to distribute it over high tension lines throughout the length and breadth of the land.
  As these transmission line passed through a town or village, power was offered to them at a figure far below the cost at which the small local plant could possibly produce it, so the local plant was closed down and eventually dismantled and today at the last report it is shown that there is less than two thousand power plants in operation in our country today. (1955) Of these it is estimated that less than twenty percent produce at least seventy-five percent production of the power within our borders.


  This number of plants may seem to be quite large until we start to break it down............


  It is certain that our enemies........


  These are some of the thoughts that raced through my mind as the shortage of Electricity.......


  But what could I do? ..........


  As I attempted to evaluation the situation it came to me that the only way to prevent an enemy from knocking.......


  I talked with a number of men in the electric field and was told that it could not be done.

  When I am told something can't be done that is when I really get interested.

  My curiousity was aroused.

  Could I divise a new way of producing electricity? ........

  For years I have accumulated clippings and made notes on various subjects, including electricity. From this accumulation of information I formulated an outline for my research on the subject.

  As I mulled this outline over over in my mind it suddenly occured to me that I had set myself to a difficult task.

  How could I produce something when I didn't know what it was. It had a name, Electricity, that was all I knew.

  I started out to get an answer to this question.
  
  Finally I went......


  This definition is correct without a doubt, it it does not answer my question: "What is Electricity?"

  Next I went to a source of information......


  It is an unanswerable to this question:........


  This most reliable reference source.......


  Anyone who knows this publication should be satisfied.........


  This, and the defination........


  I was still back where I had started from. My knowledge may have increased but no one could answer my question;