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The power line that reached Madrid

Villa de Ves, La Manchuela, Albacete

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The power line that reached Madrid

Curiosity · Villa de Ves, La Manchuela, Albacete

Image of Villa de Ves, not of the place itself.

From El Molinar ran the Villa de Ves-Madrid high-tension line, 254 kilometres long, the longest and most expensive of its day: it was the first time in Europe that power had been transmitted at 66,000 volts over such a distance.

Photo: DnTrotaMundos ☮ (CC BY 3.0)

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