EDMUND A. LAPORT COLLECTION, ca. 1920-1950 
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"This is a good example of the extremes to which station elaboration went, in the decorative work being cast aluminum in the transmitter room, and symbolic circuitry painted in corridors and other spaces."

 

 

WEAF "...used a spray pond as heat exchanger for the water
that cooled the power tubes. There were centrifugal pumps to circulate water for the transmitter and pumps to circulate outside water to the pond and sprayer."

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