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Workers Install Wound Revolving Field for Boulder Dam Generator, 1937
General Electric Company1937
Museum of Innovation & Science
Schenectady, United States
Workers install revolving field for GE generator at Boulder Dam. Wound revolving field (with assembly of poles being completed) for 1 of 2 General Electric vertical alternating-current generators, 82,500 KVA, 180 RPM, 16,500 Volts, 60 Cycles, Type ATI-W, 40-pole (Unit no. 5). Top oblique side view showing tram in place on shaft, for checking locations of poles and roundness of field. In hydroelectric power station at Boulder Dam, for U.S. Department of Interior Bureau of Reclamation.
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- Title: Workers Install Wound Revolving Field for Boulder Dam Generator, 1937
- Creator: General Electric Company
- Date Created: 1937
- Location: Boulder City - Clark County - Nevada
- Physical Dimensions: 8 x 10
- Original Language: English
- Subject Keywords: Dams; Hydroelectric generators; Employees; United States. Bureau of Reclamation; GE Energy (Firm);
- Type: Photograph
- Publisher: General Electric Company
- Rights: This digital image may be used for educational uses. Please cite as miSci- Museum of Innovation & Science. Prior written permission is required for any other use of the images from miSci.
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