BOOK TOWER FROM THE COURT [plate facing p. 66]

MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT
 

Description of the electrical and elevator equipment and the
book conveyor and pneumatic tube systems.
 

ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT

Service. The building is supplied with electricity for 
lights and power from the Central Power Plant of the University, 
through two feeders, in the form of direct current at 
approximately 220 volts, one supplying the lights and the 
other the power. The feeders terminate at a switchboard 
consisting of five panels, on which there are overload circuit 
breakers in the feeder connections, watt-hour meters to measure 
separately the power supplied to the lights and motors, 
and switches to control the mains distributing the power to 
the different parts of the building.