High-tension control switchboard of the Central Power Station of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, which closed in the 1950s and became known as the Gowanus Batcave.
These photos and diagrams come <i>Electric Power Plants: A Description of a Number of Power Stations</i> by Thomas Edward Murray (1910).
Thomas Edward Murray
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