NOTEBOOK “β” (“BETA”)

BALLOD, STATISTICS

| Professor Dr. Karl Ballod , Fundamentals of Statistics , Berlin, 1913. | | | Ballod |
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A very good summary, apparently, of statistical data, the author being, above all, interested in statistics of production ( quantity of products)—cf. Atlanticus!!—

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| | Ballod believes that in Germany there are two iron slaves (machines) for each worker | |
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§ “ Technical Productive Power ”

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| | Steam | | Water | | Elec tricity |
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| Germany (1907) 8.8 mill. h.p. in industry | (7.3 | + | 0.9 | + | 1.5) | | | (steam) machin- ery |
| America (U.S.A.) 16.0 mill. h.p. in industry | (14.2 | + | 1.8 | + | ?) |
| Britain (*) (1907) 10.7 mill. h.p. in industry | |
| Total + locomotives 13 mill. h.p. | (1895) |

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| Britain | | (*) Figures for Britain from Die Bank , 1913, p. 190—Board of Trade data. Results of the “census of production” for industry (all). Gross sale value = £ 1,765 million; cost of raw materials = £ 1.028 million; further processing = £ 25 million. Net value [1 — — (2 + 3)] = £ 712 million. Number of work- ers = 6,985,000 . Machinery = 10,755,000 h.p. [+in agriculture, value = £ 196 mil- lion; workers, 2.8 million]. Total capital (in industry) = £ 1,500 million. |
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Amount of Water-Power

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| Switzerland | 1 1/2-3 |
| Sweden + Norway | 8 (about 28 million) |
| Finland | 4-6 (p. 255) |
| Niagara | 4-5 (only one-tenth used) |
| Congo waterfalls (Africa) | 28 |
| South America (??) | 1-2 |