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 Again interesting but as far as I could see they looked just like any other power plant. I sized them up just the same to see what I could see.

“Now, let’s take a peep at the sending apparatus,” and with that we strolled over to the third building.

“Sounds like a young thunder factory!” I ejaculated as crashes of electric fire tore through the air like small bolts of lightning.

“If we’d had this station down there in Montclair we’d have had them all by the ears, eh, Jack?”

“I’d say we would,” I returned as I measured with my eye the gigantic high potential apparatus.

This was made up of low frequency transformers, revolving spark-gaps which changed the high pressure alternating currents into high frequency electricity. Then there were the high pressure oscillation transformers, the condensers and switches of large size which were actuated by telegraph sending keys. Yes, indeed, here were the real sights of a cableless station and it was fully worth all that my round voyage cost me to see it. Having feasted