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Titles read: “CURRENT ATTRACTION“ (Dublin issue). Pittsburgh, United States of America. Various shots of the world's largest circuit breaker for safeguarding electric power that has been installed at Pittsburgh. A man twiddles knobs and we see electricity flashing when 2 million kilowatts are short-circuited. In another demonstration, a section of the power line held in a wooden clamp explodes into hundreds of pieces when it is disconnected. In the refrigerator laboratory, engineers in protective suits test equipment for Iceland. Ice-covered installations are short-circuited to produce flashes of electricity at 20 degrees below freezing. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT'S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items fro
