Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Lake Biwa Canal and Its Hydro-Electric Power: The Municipal Electric Works, Kyoto, Japan
The construction of electric works by the municipality of K oto challenges attention because of the fact that they represent one of the first examples of hydro-electric-power plants in the world. The plan and illustrative diagrams shown in connection with this descriptive text, will serve to give a general idea of the magnitude of the undertaking, together with a clearer under standing of certain details of the work.
The works are owned and managed by the municipal govern ment of Kyoto, and supply electric light and power to all parts of the city. Kyoto has a population of and it is one of the three principal cities in Japan: it is famous for its Fine Arts, for its old temples, and for the beautiful scenery of the mountains by which it is nearly encircled as in an amphitheatre.
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