2,000,000-Volt, high-tension, laboratory at Stanford university

The highest voltage yet obtained by man was demonstrated in the new laboratory of Stanford University, California, on Friday, September 17, before an assemblage of eminent men of science including Cummingb C. Chesney, president of the Institue educators, and the press, a ribbon of living flame, more than 20 ft. long, leaped between two points high into the air above six giant transformers, marking the highest voltage yet attained at commercial frequency. — 2,100,000 volts.