The bright beams in the engine room changed to the muffled light of the explosion-proof lamps. A siren blared from the loudspeakers.
- Generator at the proper speed.
- Start!
- Frequency?
- One thousand... three... five thousand!
The hall was filled with the steady hum of a spinning shaft.
- It's stable. Close the circuit!
The hum was drowned out by the whirring of hundreds of kilovolts.
- Second, two seconds, circuit break!
- Shut it down. The fire extinguishing system went on in the test chamber. Everything worked properly, the subject passed the test.
