Low-tension 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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