Among the innovations included in the Station was "the use of 10,000-volt high-tension cable", successfully tested for safety.

In appearance, high-tension cable is very similar to low-tension.

First of all there is low-frequency radiation from high-tension cables and frequencies generated by them.

High ground, obstacles and high-tension cables that would prove a hazard to a crippled plane were all indicated.

High-tension cable consists of three or four pre-stretched cables supported by weak posts.

Her anxiety hummed inside her like a high-tension cable, shutting her off from everything else.

Set inside the hatch was a high-tension cable a hundred fifty meters long - a line thick enough to carry the power for a dozen ships.

One person died from electrocution, due to a downed high-tension cable, and another person died in a similar manner.

The only recorded fatality was that of a 25-year-old bricklayer electrocuted when a high-tension cable broke loose and fell on him at his job site.

The cause was a fault in a high-tension cable that fed electricity into an underground transformer, a Consolidated Edison worker at the scene said.

The reason is that looters have stepped up their theft of high-tension cables, which they melt into copper bars and sell across the border in Iran.

That power cannot be exported via high-tension cables because it is too remote; instead, it is used in aluminum smelters.

So far this year, Eskom has registered five thefts of heavy high-tension cables, potential killers carrying 275,000 volts of electricity.

Once over his cranes we crossed waterlogged fields and high-tension cables that sparkled in the rain, like a spider's web wet with dew.

Not far from the Bayji power plant in northern Iraq, high-tension cables that run to Baghdad now either hang like spaghetti or have disappeared altogether.

Three miles (5 km) inland ran a series of electricity pylons and high-tension cables, the main national grid line for South Scotland, carrying 132,000 volts.

Outside Bayji, farmers have been unable to irrigate their fields in the past week because the attacks on high-tension cables also damaged a number of local electric lines.

NESCo laid high-tension cables from the power station to various substations in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Traditional underground high-tension cables are constructed either with internal oil ducts or channels or by the use of a pipe through which the insulated conductor is installed.

A topical concern right now is a high-tension cable planned between Blekinge in southern Sweden and Poland which has met strong opposition among citizens who are concerned about their environment.

One grew faint and vague in the heat and bad air; one stumbled-into a naked high-tension cable, or a bubbling crucible, or onto the die of a champing automatic hammer.

Officials at the Ohio Department of Transportation attribute the improved safety to a $1.1-million high-tension cable that the department built in the freeway's median about the time, coincidentally, that the statue was erected.

"Ferranti pioneered the use of Alternating Current for the distribution of electrical power in Europe authoring 176 patents on the alternator, high-tension cables, insulation, circuit breakers, transformers and turbines."

A few days after that Norman Prince, the founder of the Lafayette, flying long and late in an attempt to avenge Rockwell, hit a high-tension cable as he came in to land in the dark.

The essence of what he said was that he had long ago established that the most efficient way of transmitting his polyphase electrical current was to boost it to high voltages and direct it along high-tension cables.