Closeup View of Electric Distribution Pole with Big Transformer, Boston 1912.

By Joe Maurath, Jr.; posted May 28, 2020

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Note the wood-enclosed fuse cutouts on the crossarm above the transformer. These were sometimes used where porcelain the plug-in-handle types were employed. The latter were most commonplace for smaller fusing applications such as for residential customers' transformers.

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