plays in the lives of all of us who live here i think you'll find it a fascinating story certainly it concerns a fascinating area no geographical region of comparable size anywhere in the world is more abundantly blast with the ingredients for prosperity and progress than is this seventeen hundred square mile strip of land stretching along the south shore of lake erie from a bottle a gun the last  east here in northeast ohio are possibilities unlimited possibilities which we have the illuminating company have tried to emphasize in bringing to the attention of wrong america the fact that this is the best location in the nation this activity is but one expression of the partnership which has existed between the area and the company for more than three quarters of a century this movie attempts to portray some of the other aspects of that partnership ne ohio as electric needs require many items of equipment car plants turbo generators transmission lines transformer banks substations cable vaults service trucks and a host of others all of them are vital but much more important than any of these things are the people who build and operate and maintain them so this then is a story of people the people of northeast ohio and the people at the illuminating company more than four thousand of them with a boat their skill and talent to providing an essential service for their neighbors the advantages which all of us here enjoyed today in this area are the result of the combined efforts of a great many men and women who work together through the years to make northeast ohio a fine place it is in which to live work and raise a family but much more impressive than the accomplishments of the past is the outlook for the future most stirring and rewarding chapters in the story of this area unquestionably lie ahead of us so you'll finality in the power to serve it pictures only the foundation on which will certainly be erected a brighter more exciting more abundant future for all of us fortunate enough to live in this the best location in the nation thank you along the south shore of lake here as people awaken to a new day of activity the pulse of northeast ohio can count the number of alarms sounding off or the number of your wife away or the that who can count the number of lights being switched on in the home people like bob anderson bob came to northeast ohio right after world war two and the light is just one of a quarter of a million new jobs created by industrial growth in this area since that  it's a great life a vase when you stop to think about it we take a lot for granted and why shouldn't we i guess it's american custom a part of our heritage but you know somebody has to look after the things we take most for granted somebody has got to know for example how much electricity we'll need every hour of the twenty four in our home and to brighten the office like the classrooms and power the machines of industry in the system this batteries office to be illuminating company northeast ohio is electric needs must be forecast at least two hours ahead why because electricity is a product that cannot be stored it must be made the instant it is needed and used the instant it is made the system dispatcher uses this graph to keep track of power needs from day to day through the year the load expectancy graph reflects every change in the weather and every holiday it shows when people get up and when they go to bed and when they're enjoying a by charting your day to day month to month and year to year living habits the dispatcher is able to keep electricity always at your fingertips for the dispatcher every day is different  different as people the electric business like no other truly reflects people's lives and habits what goes on in these four illuminating company power plants like sho is a reflection of your life bob and the lives of all of us who live in northeast ohio electricity works day and night around the clock doing all kinds of jobs nobody would choose to be without in northeast ohio the generation of electricity begins with coal million tons of over six million dollars worth is stored at the company's pla goes through the first crushing process and then up seven stories to the bins above the boilers at the top of the building which is directed against the blades of a turban at tremendous pressure so in the turban room steam becomes mechanical energy turning the shaft of this giant turban at sixty revolutions per second thirty six hundred per minute turban and generator are whirling on the same shaft thus mechanical energy is converted into electric energy five a generat it's then routed to step down transmission substation where the voltage is reduced to eleven thousand or thirty three thousand votes electricity is delivered to some industrial plants  age the rest of the power supply goes to the neighborhood distribution substations where it's reduced to forty six hundred transformers the kind you may have noticed near your home automatically reduce the electric pressure to one hundred twenty or two hundred forty volts it takes to operate home appliances like your toaster and your coffee maker to yeah stuti the electricity for your breakfast came along way no time at all it was generated  just one three thousands of a second ago but there's more to providing electric service for five hundred thousand customers large and small not just power plants and transmission  in fact they've been tracking this storm for hours they've been tracking it in the troubled sections these are the illuminating companies troubleshooters prepared to meet any emergency and  strikes man machines and equipment are already on the move the day shift linemen are already on the job an hour earlier than usual at the slike plant electrical control room and other generator has been put on the line it was ordered long before the storm was due with the strike it had to be it takes at least two hours to get one of these giant machines revved up  as customer calls are received specially trained girls on the service for and record them for immediate attention in the troubled section with crack linemen like these on the job your electric service is a good is the chain of operations starting with the most and ending with the miracle of electricity embracing the activities of the giant power plant tied in with a network of sensitive instruments measuring and recording the open flow of power all of these are linked by a cordon of more than four thousand illuminating employee civil mechanical and electrical engineers laboratory technician skilled operat and highly trained office personnel working in some six hundred different job special ladies all the human resources of the company skilled men and women attending classes on their own time seeking to increase their ability to serve with compensation in terms of opportunity recognition and security from the younger generation just beginning to the one employed in every four who has been with the company more than twenty five years all are united in a spirit of service in which the company takes breaks from just that the company better roads and better street lighting in an effort to create new jobs for the people of northeast ohio company representatives have told the story of the area to industrial all over the country inviting them to build new plants in the best location in the next american industry has responded by investing over two and a half billion dollars in industrial expansion in this area since world war two a border of a million new jo and new industries and ten years of spring up year after year and planning engineers at the illuminating company have always stayed well i head of community development with bigger more efficient generating with the company has expressed its place in the future of the area it served by means of a five hundred million dollar postwar expansion program which calls for new t generators new transmission line and the new illuminating building on cleveland's public  square for the people of northeast ohio the future holds a hundred thousand new home refrigerator doors that open and close by pushbutton kitchen cabinets electrically raised and lowered and new factories creating new jobs and a still higher standard of living we'll see more churches more hostile and the kids they'll have plenty of classrooms in which to study and learn already company engineers are working on the development of atomic reactors and when the time comes the illuminating company will be ready to put the atoms to work generating electricity for its customers the outlook for the future is as