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These rock drillers are clearing a path for the high-pressue penstock pipeline to Big Creek Powerhouse #1

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Title: These rock drillers are clearing a path for the high-pressue penstock pipeline to Big Creek Powerhouse #1
Creator: Stone & Webster, photographer
Date Created and/or Issued: 1913
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Southern California Edison Photographs and Negatives
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: These rock drillers are clearing a path for the high-pressue penstock pipeline to Big Creek Powerhouse #1. The tripods that hold the compressed air drills were nicknamed "spiders," and were developed specifically to deal with the steep terrain encountered on the Big Creek Project.
Type: image
Format: 567300 Bytes
Extent: Copy negative ; A--8x10
Identifier: 12 - 00025
232841
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll2/id/5510
Subject: Hydroelectric power-plants
Construction
Construction crew
Penstocks
Mountains
Place: Fresno County (Calif.)
Source: Southern California Edison Photographs and Negatives
Story of Big Creek
Southern California Edison Photographs and Negatives, Huntington Digital Library

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