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The museums, the machines and the men and women who worked it out: laboratories kept as they were, beam engines under steam, the tunnel, the barrier, the roofs, and the plaques on the houses where the ideas came.
Battersea Power Station, Giles Gilbert Scott's brick cathedral of 1933, with a glass lift up the inside of a chimney to the top.
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The largest brick building in Europe burned coal for London's electricity from 1933 to 1983 and then stood roofless for thirty years before the rebuild that opened it as shops and flats in 2022, with Turbine Hall A's art deco control room and Turbine Hall B's steel kept as the spine of the place; the four chimneys were taken down and rebuilt to the millimetre. Lift 109 takes you up the north-west chimney in a glass capsule to a platform 109 metres over the river, standing where the smoke once came out.
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