This is especially true where curves are plotted showing the fluctuations in the market prices of stocks or bonds. In such cases, it is desirable to plot two curves, one showing the minimum prices and the other showing the maximum prices. When the two curves lie quite closely together, it frequently assists in the clearness of the chart if the co-ordinate lines are erased between the two adjacent curves. The erasing of the co-ordinate lines makes the curves stand out much more distinctly than they otherwise would.
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The Engineering Magazine
Fig. 115. Typical Curves Showing the Twenty-Four Hour Demand for Electricity during the Summer Months in Various Types of Buildings in New York City
Curve D shows the fluctuations in the load on a power house supplying all of the buildings represented by
curves A, B, C, E and F. By combining loads of different types, the power plant can be kept more continuously
busy than otherwise possible. After the other curves are all plotted, curve D can easily be
located by stepping off with draftsmen's dividers on each vertical line the heights of all the different
curves at that particular line
Charts on the general type of Fig. 116 are valuable to give a vivid comparison. A chart of this kind would be especially striking if used in advertising, or in a report where concentration upon only one general idea was needed, without a great amount of specific detail. Though Fig. 116 shows that telephone rates have had a constantly downward
