ELECTRIC-POWER
MODERN DEVELOPMENTS * ENGINEER'S STUDY ABROAD Modem methods of electric-power generation in the United States and England, and also on the Continent, are to be studied by Mr. A. Wilson, of Yallourn, Victoria, who is a passenger for Vancouver by the Niagara, which arrived from Sydney yesterday. Mr. Wilson is mechanical engineer to the briquette branch of the State Electricity Commission of Victoria. Electric power was generated as w a by-product in the manufacture of briquettes, Mr. Wilson said, and was sold to the power-station at Yallourn. He intended to study while abroad tho latest developments in super-pressure, high-temperature power stations, with a view to these being incorporated in tho plant in Victoria. After travelling in the United States Snd England, Mr. Wilson hopes to visit Germany, Czechoslovakia, and possibly Soviet Russia. He will return to Australia by way of Suez.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22429, 27 May 1936, Page 14
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