I was working in the radio room and had the set on and mentioned that I was making cables. Someone sugested that I Google "Telefontornet"
Back in the late 1800's, Stockholm, Sweden had one of the highest numbers of telephones per-capita and the Swedish telephone service needed to find a way to bring service to 5,000 telephones into a central switchboard facility. Here is one photo to whet your whistle and then a bunch of links:
Each set of wires goes to someone's telephone in their business or house. The tower is a lattice structure holding the insulators and providing a way for the individual wires to get into the exchange switchboards below.
More photos here: This Is Colossal
The Swedish Museum of Technology has a couple of Flickr feeds:
Inside the facility (some serious gear pron) HERE
Views of the actual tower HERE
Disasters - ice, fallen lines, etc. HERE
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