ELECTRICAL "NURSE" FOR 20" PIPELINEE&MP 12.003 Electric Appliances & Apparatus August 18, 1943 PITTSBURGH, Pa. -- With this working model, J.P. Houck, switchboard engineer for the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company, demonstrates how a few pushbuttons will control the flow of millions of gallons of vital oil products through the 20-inch pipeline, now being built between Houston, Texas, and the Eastern Seaboard. For each of the line's 29 pumping stations Westinghouse is building an electrical 'nurse', a control desk with a diagram like this in its top. These desks will keep a constant check on the pressure "pulse"
of the line and on the operation of electric motors, pumps and valves
in the station.
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