The project created a (then) large 300,000 hp hydroelectric power plant at Genissiat on the Rhône, and transmitted electrical power to Paris more than 350 km away using polyphase AC current at 120 kV.
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In 1894 he proposed the lumen and other new measurement units for use in photometry, based on the metre and the Violle candle.
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