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certain Major Mandel who seems to be at the head of the Casino.  Light supper at Quincke's then took trolley to Cologne which took about one hour.
March 15 Slept very well.  Sunny weather then hail, rain, then sunny, etc.  Ides of March  Spent all morning [[underline]] correcting letter agreement of Quincke relative Hooker deal and wrote several letters.  [[/underline]]  Segal and Moser are in London in conference with [[underline]] Sir George [[written in margin, Croyden]] Marx [[/underline]] in relation to [[underline]] Condensite [[/underline]] proportions.  Afternoon went to Levenkusen by trolley and with Quincke went again in detail over the electrolytic plant They run plant 110-115 volts for 30 cells or about 3.7 volt per cell.  each group of
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units being 4000 Amperes.  The dynamo can be run 220 volts - 4000 Ampere maximum. - they are very liberal with room and floor space, extraordinarily so and everything seems to be equipped in great style regardless of cost. They use very high pressure steam then superheat, use in [[underline]]one [[/underline]] horizontal reciprocating engine. with double expansion [[strikethrough]] then finally [[/strikethrough]] and use intermediate steam after first expansion to heat vacuum evaporators for their caustic lye.  Tells me cost of power is not much above that of Niagara Falls because they use their exhaust for evaporation.  I think however he is mistaken [[strikethrough]] and that [[/strikethrough]] because later on he seemed to be under impression that our