On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 10:03, Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
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From: "JC Dill" <jcdill.lists@gmail.com>
On 19/12/10 8:31 PM, Chris Adams wrote:
Look up pictures of New York City in the early days of electricty. There were streets where you couldn't hardly see the sky because of all the wires on the poles.
Can you provide a link to a photo of this situation?
Sure, though they're a bit harder to find on the web than you'd think; it took me almost 20 minutes to find this one when I wrote the piece:
Those look more like power lines, with a substation in the background. Try this: http://www.copper.org/publications/newsletters/innovations/1998/05/images/hi... from http://www.copper.org/publications/newsletters/innovations/1998/05/evolution... or a drawing: http://blog.silive.com/sinotebook/2008/12/Broadway-1885.jpg Andrew