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Title: Mastering power production ; the industrial, economic and social problems involved and their solution
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Polakov, Walter N. (Walter Nicholas), 1879-1948
Subjects: Efficiency, Industrial Power-plants
Publisher: New York, The Engineering magazine company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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