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Electric Lighting 1918. The Navy Radio Station personnel installed a small electric-lighting plant in the basement of the Government shop located in the village. “Almost all the equipment except the engine was borrowed from the radio station and was subject to return at any time.” Lights were installed in the shop, company house, dispensary, club house, and Government house (Bower 1919, 82). 1924. The entire village was wired for electric lighting in 1924. Power came from a motor rewound as a generator and which had formerly been used at the Bureau of Fisheries central station at Seattle, Washington . The generator was connected to a 20-HP semi-diesel engine used to pump water for washing sealskins. A set of Edison storage batteries was also connected to the system (Bower 1925b, 143).
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