Visual Materials

Powerhouse 8

Description: Powerhouse 8 - the big transformers being shipped to SCE's Big Creek Powerhouse #8 project from General Electric on "Strongback" RR flatcar and ready for trip down the incline, showing portion of the cable sling beneath coupler. [for the first powerplant in the world to transmit power at 220,000 volts.]
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 7/28/1921
Call number: photCL SCE 02 - 07167
Find out more: View in the Huntington Digital Library(Opens in new tab); View in the Library catalog(Opens in new tab)

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