Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Stator frame of the 30,000 kilowatt generator which Westinghouse Electric Company is manufacturing for the Watts Bar Dam of Tennesse Valley Authority (TVA). It is lined with thousands of armature coils, and over 100,000 sheets of laminated iron which serve to conduct the electricity. The stator frame is part of the generator inside of which revolves the rotor or revolving part. The whole frame weighs 425,000 pounds and is shipped in four quarter sections. A worker measures the resistance of the windings. The frame measures 378 inches in diameter

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Stator frame of the 30,000 kilowatt generator which Westinghouse Electric Company is manufacturing for the Watts Bar Dam of Tennesse Valley Authority (TVA). It is lined with thousands of armature coils, and over 100,000 sheets of laminated iron which serve to conduct the electricity. The stator frame is part of the generator inside of which revolves the rotor or revolving part. The whole frame weighs 425,000 pounds and is shipped in four quarter sections. A worker measures the resistance of the windings. The frame measures 378 inches in diameter

Digital ID: (digital file from intermediary roll film) fsa 8d20048 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8d20048
Reproduction Number: LC-USW3-031433-D (b&w film neg.)
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Stator frame of the 30,000 kilowatt generator which Westinghouse Electric Company is manufacturing for the Watts Bar Dam of Tennesse Valley Authority (TVA). It is lined with thousands of armature coils, and over 100,000 sheets of laminated iron which serve to conduct the electricity. The stator frame is part of the generator inside of which revolves the rotor or revolving part. The whole frame weighs 425,000 pounds and is shipped in four quarter sections. A worker measures the resistance of the windings. The frame measures 378 inches in diameter

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