> So many crazy machines were built before there was either a need or an effective way to standardize anything power related. One of my favorite, somewhat rela

> So many crazy machines were built before there was either a need or an effective way to standardize anything power related. One of my favorite, somewhat related, such machinery was those multi-pole "generators" that were used to create carrier waves for radio transmission between the thin era of spark-gaps and vacuum tube oscillators.