Image Gallery: Building An Infrastructure

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Link to photo of TVA water-wheel under construction.
45,000 Kilovolt-ampere waterwheel
for Tennessee Valley Authority
(foreground), c.1938
Image #21.038 Science Service
Historical Image Collection
National Museum of American History
Smithsonian Institution
copyright, Smithsonian Institution

Link to photo of worker assembling generator.
Westinghouse worker assembles
2,500-kilowatt Generator
1942
Image #10.035 Science Service
Historical Image Collection
National Museum of American History
Smithsonian Institution
copyright, Smithsonian Institution

Link to photo of workers assembling hydro-generator.
Hydro-electric Generator
for Russia's Dnieprostroi Dam
1945
Image #21.009 Science Service
Historical Image Collection
National Museum of American History
Smithsonian Institution
copyright, Smithsonian Institution

Link to photo of worker testing circuit breaker.
Cold Weather Testing of an
Oil Circuit Breaker
1936
Image #15.009 Science Service
Historical Image Collection
National Museum of American History
Smithsonian Institution
copyright, Smithsonian Institution

Link to photo of circuit breaker.
2,500,000-kv-a Impulse Oil
Circuit Breaker, 1934
Image #15.011 Science Service
Historical Image Collection
National Museum of American History
Smithsonian Institution
copyright, Smithsonian Institution

Link to photo of circuit breaker.
Engineers checking data on 230kv
air-blast circuit breaker
1960
Image #15.021 Science Service
Historical Image Collection
National Museum of American History
Smithsonian Institution
copyright, Smithsonian Institution

Link to photo of containment sphere under construction.
Containment Sphere at San Onofre
Nuclear Generating Station
1966
Image 64143
Electricity & Modern Physics
Collection
National Museum of American History
Smithsonian Institution
copyright, Smithsonian Institution

Link to photo of worker assembling reactor.
Assembling a Boiling Water Reactor
Humboldt Bay Nuclear Power Station
c.1965
Image 64141
Electricity & Modern Physics
Collection
National Museum of American History
Smithsonian Institution
copyright, Smithsonian Institution

Link to photo of wind turbine.
Wind-driven Electric Generator
1945
Image #21.007 Science Service
Historical Image Collection
National Museum of American History
Smithsonian Institution
copyright, Smithsonian Institution

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