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Illustration of the new Poldhu station

A long low building is surrounded by four large aerial towers. An inverted pyramid of wires connects the towers to a single point on the building’s roof.

Zenneck, Jonathan Adolf Wilhelm. Wireless Telegraphy. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1915. Chapter VI, Figure 184. Google Books (https://books.google.ca/books?id=0DFLAAAAMAAJ).

The plan for an aerial system to replace the one destroyed at Poldhu. Wires connected the four towers to the station below. This setup was eventually used at several stations around the world.