Street Lighting at Glen Falls

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 30, 8 February 1929, Page 8

Street Lighting at Glen Falls

HE street lighting system at Glen Falls, New York, is controlled by wireless. A transmitting plant using only one wavelength is used while five receiving sets capable of picking up the transmitter’s wave only respond to the signals sent out. It is necessary to operate the transmitting plant only fifteen seconds a day to illuminate a whole town. In the power house the transmitting plant is kept, and the panel containing the equipment is accommodated with two switches, one marked "on" and the other labelled "off." The first switch sets the transmitter in operation for 5sec., while the second turns the transmitter off, but, however, it operates automatically for 10sec. The five receiying sets are installed in yarious parts of the town. When it is time for the lights to be extinguished the operator at the power house turns the "off" button on, and, at the proper moment the lights go out.