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- Bergmann & Company Edison Chemical Meter, Used at the City Hotel, Sunbury, Pennsylvania, 1883 - To make money selling electricity, Thomas Edison had to know how much his customers used. This meter used electricity to plate zinc onto electrodes. By weighing the electrodes to see how much zinc had accumulated, Edison's company could calculate how much electricity was being used. This meter was used as part of Edison's first three-wire distribution system in Sunbury, Pennsylvania.
- 1883
- Collections - Artifact
Bergmann & Company Edison Chemical Meter, Used at the City Hotel, Sunbury, Pennsylvania, 1883
To make money selling electricity, Thomas Edison had to know how much his customers used. This meter used electricity to plate zinc onto electrodes. By weighing the electrodes to see how much zinc had accumulated, Edison's company could calculate how much electricity was being used. This meter was used as part of Edison's first three-wire distribution system in Sunbury, Pennsylvania.
- Card Advertising a Dinner Dance at the City Hotel, "Social Hop!," 1880 - By the 1880s, cities and towns across the country sported dozens of local dance bands and orchestras that played the latest popular numbers for social occasions. A social hop was a public dance which might include any number of cotillions, quadrilles, polkas, schottisches, lancers, mazurkas, minuettes, and waltzes. Dance orchestra members typically played violin, viola, clarinet, flute, and double bass.
- September 08, 1880
- Collections - Artifact
Card Advertising a Dinner Dance at the City Hotel, "Social Hop!," 1880
By the 1880s, cities and towns across the country sported dozens of local dance bands and orchestras that played the latest popular numbers for social occasions. A social hop was a public dance which might include any number of cotillions, quadrilles, polkas, schottisches, lancers, mazurkas, minuettes, and waltzes. Dance orchestra members typically played violin, viola, clarinet, flute, and double bass.
- Trade Card for Fountain City Hotel, circa 1880 - In the last third of the nineteenth century, an unprecedented variety of consumer goods and services flooded the American market. Advertisers bombarded potential customers with trade cards. Americans enjoyed and saved the often illustrated little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. Many survive as historical records of commercialism in the United States.
- circa 1880
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Fountain City Hotel, circa 1880
In the last third of the nineteenth century, an unprecedented variety of consumer goods and services flooded the American market. Advertisers bombarded potential customers with trade cards. Americans enjoyed and saved the often illustrated little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. Many survive as historical records of commercialism in the United States.