On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 10:03, Jay Ashworth <j...@baylink.com> wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "JC Dill" <jcdill.li...@gmail.com> > >> On 19/12/10 8:31 PM, Chris Adams wrote: >> > Look up pictures of New York City in the early days of electricty. >> > There were streets where you couldn't hardly see the sky because of >> > all >> > the wires on the poles. >> > >> Can you provide a link to a photo of this situation? > > Sure, though they're a bit harder to find on the web than you'd > think; it took me almost 20 minutes to find this one when I > wrote the piece: > > http://baylink.pitas.com/#LASTMILE >
Those look more like power lines, with a substation in the background. Try this: http://www.copper.org/publications/newsletters/innovations/1998/05/images/historical001.jpg from http://www.copper.org/publications/newsletters/innovations/1998/05/evolution.html or a drawing: http://blog.silive.com/sinotebook/2008/12/Broadway-1885.jpg Andrew