PoachedSausage·6 jaar geleden·discussPeople were obviously trusted not to be stupid enough to touch them back then. We designed things in Art Deco style, I don't know what the style is now, Health & Safety Mandatory Beige perhaps.
PoachedSausage·6 jaar geleden·discussYou can see them in action at Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings[0] which includes a working telephone exchange.About a mile from there is Droitwich Transmitting Station, an ArtDeco era station, see page 13 of [1] for exposed knife switches with 400V.[0] https://avoncroft.org.uk/avoncrofts-work/special-collections...[1] http://www.bbceng.info/Operations/transmitter_ops/Reminiscen...