Generator
About this photograph
- Provider
- Biltmore Company
- Date created
- 2007
- Location
- Asheville, North Carolina
- License
- Copyright unknown.
See this photograph in context
- A technological tour of the Biltmore Estate: This tour of “America's Castle” explains the technological features George Vanderbilt incorporated into his turn-of-the-century home. (Page 10)
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- Search LEARN NC for antiques, Biltmore Estate, electricity, generators, history, North Carolina, and technology.
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The massive structure in this photograph is a generator. It is painter black and is located in the basement of the Biltmore House. The generator has two large wheels. A light bulb shows how much light was produced at that time. Today’s light bulbs produced much more light.
