Marconi's Transatlantic Telegraph Service

Standby Battery

Marconi Towers, Cape Breton Island
Nova Scotia

Figure 9

Figure 9
Standby Battery, Marconi Towers
This battery could supply the station with power
for several hours if the generators failed.
The twelve kilovolt battery contained
six thousand large cells and stored about
five hundred kilowatt-hours of energy.

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First uploaded to the WWW:   2001 April 02
Latest update:   2006 November 10

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