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- General Electric Generator in Fordlandia's Powerhouse, Brazil, 1933 - Henry Ford established Fordlandia and Belterra in the Brazilian rainforest to supply rubber for automobile production. He began shipping machinery and supplies to the Amazon in 1928. Ford paid the indigenous workers good wages and supplied various amenities -- he also imposed foreign work traditions and behavioral restrictions which the workers resented. The plantations failed and Ford Motor Company disposed of the project in 1945.
- February 01, 1933
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General Electric Generator in Fordlandia's Powerhouse, Brazil, 1933
Henry Ford established Fordlandia and Belterra in the Brazilian rainforest to supply rubber for automobile production. He began shipping machinery and supplies to the Amazon in 1928. Ford paid the indigenous workers good wages and supplied various amenities -- he also imposed foreign work traditions and behavioral restrictions which the workers resented. The plantations failed and Ford Motor Company disposed of the project in 1945.
- The "Jumbo" Dynamo in Its Original Setting, Edison's Pearl Street Lighting Station, New York, New York, circa 1890 - Edison's successful lighting experiments at his Menlo Park laboratory in 1879 bore fruit in the practical system he put into operation in New York City, at the center of which was the Pearl Street power station. This was the first engine-generator to go online providing power to customers on September 4th, 1882. The sole surviving engine-generator from that installation, it is now displayed at Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan.
- circa 1890
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The "Jumbo" Dynamo in Its Original Setting, Edison's Pearl Street Lighting Station, New York, New York, circa 1890
Edison's successful lighting experiments at his Menlo Park laboratory in 1879 bore fruit in the practical system he put into operation in New York City, at the center of which was the Pearl Street power station. This was the first engine-generator to go online providing power to customers on September 4th, 1882. The sole surviving engine-generator from that installation, it is now displayed at Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan.
- Article from Scientific American, "The Edison Electric Lighting Station," August 26, 1882 -
- August 26, 1882
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Article from Scientific American, "The Edison Electric Lighting Station," August 26, 1882
- Edison Dynamo, Type Z, circa 1882 -
- circa 1882
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Edison Dynamo, Type Z, circa 1882
- L Type Edison Dynamo at the Sunbury, Pennsylvania Edison Illuminating Company, 1883 -
- 1883
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L Type Edison Dynamo at the Sunbury, Pennsylvania Edison Illuminating Company, 1883