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The tower carried 115 kV and was built in 1919 according to https://www.chicoer.com/2018/12/07/it-was-originally-built-in-1919-what-failed-on-pge-tower-at-heart
by blendo 8y ago
The tower carried 115 kV and was built in 1919 according to https://www.chicoer.com/2018/12/07/it-was-originally-built-in-1919-what-failed-on-pge-tower-at-heart-of-camp-fire-probe/ https://www.chicoer.com/2018/12/07/it-was-originally-built-i...
San Francisco Gas and Electric Company and the California Gas and Electric Corporation merged to form PG&E in 1905.
This technology dates from the almost the earliest days:
both Nikola Tesla (d 1943) and Thomas Edison (d 1931) were still alive when this tower was built, and George Westinghouse died only in 1914.