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Title: Electrical experiments, Cal Tech, view 2
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1925
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Electrical experiments at the California Institute of Technology High-Potential Laboratory in 1925. View 2: "Molten rainbows--roar of baby thunder--this 40-foot spark is produced by the California Institute's million-volt apparatus used in testing high voltage equipment and furthering research in the field of super-power transmission." (Information taken from what appears to be a printed caption from a magazine pasted to the back of the photo.) The transformer was devised by Royal W. Sorenson, professor of electrical engineering. Photo dated: December 11, 1925.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00036355
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Pasadena-Universities and colleges-Cal Tech.; N-003-831.2 8x10
CARL0000039244
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/97506
Subject: Sorenson, Royal W
California Institute of Technology
Universities and colleges--California--Pasadena
Science--Experiments
Electricity--Experiments
Electric insulators and insulation
Electric power transmission
Pasadena (Calif.)

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