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Description
Installation of Maine Public Service diesel electric generators in Presque Isle at the junction of routes 167 and 205.
These state of the art "fast start" generators, the design of which was adapted from diesel railroad engines, were started with the push of a button and were up to full output power in 90 seconds.
About This Item
- Title: Installation of generators, Presque Isle, ca. 1959
- Creator: Richard W Sprague
- Creation Date: 1959
- Subject Date: 1959
- Location: Presque Isle, Aroostook County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 19 cm x 24 cm
- Collection: Richard Sprague
- Object Type: Image
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- Maine Public Service Company--Equipment and supplies
- Employees
- Digging
- Electricity--Maine
- Power utility companies--Maine--Presque Isle
- Electric generators
- Electrical apparatus
- Delivering--Maine--Presque Isle
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Oakfield Historical SocietyPO Box 176, Oakfield, ME 04763
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