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Allegheny Light Company, power station interior

1888

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Allegheny Light Company, power station interior
  • Title
  • Allegheny Light Company, power station interior
  • Creator
  • Westinghouse Electric Corporation
  • Date
  • 1888
  • Identifier
  • 20170320-hpichswp-0006
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP424_B001_F020_I01
  • Description
  • The interior of the Allegheny Light Company power station. Description reads: "AC POWER PLANTS GREW RAPIDLY - The early current power plants grew rapidly and used numerous small alternators belt driven. This is a Westinghouse plant of about 1888. Original AC generator - (1886-1889). This type has a smooth armature core, covered with a single layer of wire. It produced 133 cycles, 1000 volts, single phase. The bearings required frequent attention, being lubricated by drip from the large oil reservoirs. Developed by Westinghouse."
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Westinghouse Electric Corporation
    Allegheny County Light Company.
    Electric light plants.
  • Source
  • Westinghouse Electric Corporation Photographs, 1886-1996, MSP 424, Thomas and Katherine Detre Library and Archives, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Westinghouse Electric Corporation Photographs
  • Rights Information
  • Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.
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