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Control Room in Operation

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Title Control Room in Operation
Description From the control room desk at the left, power plant operators have telephone connections with all parts of the dam and powerhouse, and long distance outlets through the local Bell telephone system, also facilities for communicating with other power plants over the 230,000-volt power lines by a "carrier current" system. From the control room desk at the left, power plant operators have telephone connections with all parts of the dam and powerhouse, and long distance outlets through the local Bell telephone system, also facilities for communicating with other power plants over the 230,000-volt power lines by a "carrier current" system.
Creator United States. Bureau of Reclamation
Subject Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.)--Control rooms; Employees--Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.); Bell Telephone Company
Coverage Control rooms--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Employees--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam United States--Washington (State)--Grant County--Grand Coulee Dam site, Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.)
Type Photographs
Identifier cg040b07v10p228.jpg http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/banks,4896
Date 7/8/1942 2010
Publisher Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries: http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/masc.htm
Source Columbia Basin Project History (Vol. X, Page 228)-Cage 40, Box 07 of the Frank Arthur Banks Papers, 1913-1957: http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/Holland/masc/finders/cg40.htm
Rights To order a reproduction please see: http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/policies.htm; or contact Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections: (509) 335-6691. For permission to publish please contact Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections: (509) 335-6691.
Format Original photographic prints scanned at 24 bit color, with 4000 pixels by the long side, for master TIFF files on an Epson Expression 10,000 XL scanner. Prints were then batch translated into JPEG files. These JPEGs were then added to the CONTENTdm database at WSU Libraries
Language English

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