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Table Head station at Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, 21 December 1902: rough timber transmitter room, plank floor, stout apparatus bench, ceramic feedthrough, heavy copper conductors, and a broad window opening onto the coastal four-tower aerial field. The operator’s curled right hand encloses the ebonite knob; the lever pivots at its rear fulcrum and its front contact touches the fixed stud. Two insulated conductors run from the key terminals into the induction apparatus. The transmitter’s heavy conductor runs continuously upward through the ceramic wall feedthrough and toward the outdoor aerial. All four bench legs and both operator boots meet the plank floor. Each tower base meets the coastal ground; guy ropes run from tower heads to separate ground anchors, while the tower tops support the aerial. Each of the four towers is about 65 m tall—roughly thirty-eight times the 1.7 m standing operator—while perspective makes the distant towers appear smaller. 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