overhead wires
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New York’s hurried electrification had filled its streets with overhead wires, uneven installation and high-voltage lines that could kill people.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
The paper says extreme temperatures can cause steel rails to expand, and the intense heat increases the risk of overhead wires breaking, along with signalling and electrical systems overheating.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
He said damage to overhead wires had caused cancellations in Ayrshire and Inverclyde.
From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2025
“We believe that the Eaton fire was ignited because of SCE’s failure to de-energize its overhead wires, which traverse Eaton Canyon,” said attorney Richard Bridgford, who is representing a local homeowner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 13, 2025
But within city limits overhead wires, with such space-consuming potentials, are as fraught with mischievous peril to the public as the dynamite stored by a nonchalant contractor in the cellar of a schoolhouse.
From Edison, His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer
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