To accomplish this automatic feeding each set of grate bars is
constructed in hinged sections, and forms a wide endless iron belt
which revolves and carries the coal within the cavity of the furnace.
The coal crusher, bucket hoist, movable grate bars, ash collectors and
sifters, pumps, blowers, lights and all other utilities of the plant,
as well as the great travelling crane which can hoist and carry many
tons' weight--any part of the enormous dynamos--from place to place,
are operated by electricity which is generated in the dynamos.
Automatic gauges that measure and indicate, and switch-boards that
regulate the energy created and stored in the dynamos play important
parts in the economy and working of the plant and are analogous to
appetite and taste in man.
ANALOGY ILLUSTRATED
The full analogy may be best illustrated by arranging the similar
functions of the two energy-creating machines opposite each other in
parallel columns.
ELECTRIC AND MIND POWER-PLANTS COMPARED
ELECTRIC POWER-PLANT MIND POWER-PLANT
Fuel. Food.
* * * * *
Selection of fuel as to Selection of food for
steam-making and economic nutritive value; normal
qualities. appetite serving as an
exact guide and gauge.
* * * * *
Crushing coal so as to Masticating food so
render combustion as that the juices of the
easy and complete as mouth can act on the
possible. substance with greatest
freedom; taste being evidence
of the working of
the process.
* * * * *
Automatic conveyal of Automatic reception of
the prepared fuel, first to properly masticated and
the bins and then on to thoroughly insalivated
the furnace as required. food into Nature's Food
Filter and emptying into
the furnace of the stomach
by Involuntary, or Compulsory
Swallowing.
* * * * *
Combustion in the furnace. Digestion in the stomach
and intestines.
* * * * *
Generation of steam in Generation of material
the boiler tubes and storage for vital energy and storage
in the boilers. in the body.
* * * * *
Steam. Blood in circulation.
* * * * *
Steam Gauge. Pulse.
* * * * *
Engine. Heart.
* * * * *
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