breakers photos on Flickr

It’s a circuit breaker valve. What’s that? That’s neat. The valve pictured here is from a vintage General Electric KSO oil-filled circuit breaker at one of our north Toronto stations. The typical life span of a station circuit breaker is 42 years. Generally, after 4 to 8 power interruptions, an oil circuit breaker requires maintenance. To service the circuit breaker, oil must be drained from the circuit breaker tank into temporary storage drums by way of this valve.

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breaker panel by charles young

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The Breakers by Tony Kent

The Breakers is a Vanderbilt mansion located on Ochre Point Avenue, Newport, Rhode Island, United States on the Atlantic Ocean. It is a National Historic Landmark, a contributing property to the Bellevue Avenue Historic District, and is owned and operated by the Preservation Society of Newport County.

The Breakers was built as the Newport summer home of Cornelius Vanderbilt II, a member of the wealthy United States Vanderbilt family. Designed by renowned architect Richard Morris Hunt and with interior decoration by Jules Allard and Sons and Ogden Codman, Jr., the 70-room mansion boasts approximately 65,000 sq ft (6,000 m2). of living space. The home was constructed between 1893 and 1895 at a cost of more than $7 million (approximately $150 million in today's dollars adjusted for inflation). The Ochre Point Avenue entrance is marked by sculpted iron gates and 30-foot (9.1 m) high walkway gates are part of a 12-foot-high limestone and iron fence that borders the property on all but the ocean side. The 250' x 120' dimensions of the five-story mansion are aligned symmetrically around a central Great Hall.

Part of a 13-acre (53,000 m²) estate on the seagirt cliffs of Newport, it sits in a commanding position that faces east overlooking the Atlantic Ocean.

bay to breakers 2009 by tinabasgen