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- Scale Model of Edison Illuminating Company Pearl Street Station, Century of Progress International Exposition, Chicago, 1934 - Chicago's 1933-34 Century of Progress Exposition used the theme of progress to encourage optimism during the Depression. The Ford Exhibition Building, which sat on eleven acres at the fair and featured industrial demonstrations and informative displays like this, became the most talked-about exhibit of 1934.
- 1934
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Scale Model of Edison Illuminating Company Pearl Street Station, Century of Progress International Exposition, Chicago, 1934
Chicago's 1933-34 Century of Progress Exposition used the theme of progress to encourage optimism during the Depression. The Ford Exhibition Building, which sat on eleven acres at the fair and featured industrial demonstrations and informative displays like this, became the most talked-about exhibit of 1934.
- "A Warning from the Edison Electric Light Company," 1887 - The late-nineteenth-century "War of Currents" pitted the backers of direct current (DC) against those who believed alternating current (AC) was the best way to transmit electricity. In this partisan publication the Edison Electric Light Company touted the advantages of their DC system, fueled the public's fear by reprinting reports of horrific deaths caused by high-voltage AC, and attacked the backers of AC who, company officials believed, misled investors.
- 1887
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"A Warning from the Edison Electric Light Company," 1887
The late-nineteenth-century "War of Currents" pitted the backers of direct current (DC) against those who believed alternating current (AC) was the best way to transmit electricity. In this partisan publication the Edison Electric Light Company touted the advantages of their DC system, fueled the public's fear by reprinting reports of horrific deaths caused by high-voltage AC, and attacked the backers of AC who, company officials believed, misled investors.
- "Electricity: Car to Home" Clip from Interview with Suzanne Fischer, 2011 - Suzanne M. Fischer is the former Curator of Technology at The Henry Ford.
- 2011
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"Electricity: Car to Home" Clip from Interview with Suzanne Fischer, 2011
Suzanne M. Fischer is the former Curator of Technology at The Henry Ford.
- Electric Streetcar and Horse-Drawn Vehicles on City Street in Bangor, Maine, circa 1885 - Horse-drawn drawn vehicles, pedestrians, and an electric streetcar share a street lined with shops in this photograph of Bangor, a prosperous nineteenth-century lumber port on Maine's Penobscot River.
- circa 1885
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Electric Streetcar and Horse-Drawn Vehicles on City Street in Bangor, Maine, circa 1885
Horse-drawn drawn vehicles, pedestrians, and an electric streetcar share a street lined with shops in this photograph of Bangor, a prosperous nineteenth-century lumber port on Maine's Penobscot River.
- Rheostat, 1900-1920 -
- 1900-1920
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Rheostat, 1900-1920
- Edison "Jumbo" Dynamo at the Pearl Street Lighting Station, New York, New York, 1882 - 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. The sole surviving engine-generator from that installation was the first to go online providing power to customers on September 4th, 1882. It is now displayed at Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan.
- 1882
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Edison "Jumbo" Dynamo at the Pearl Street Lighting Station, New York, New York, 1882
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. The sole surviving engine-generator from that installation was the first to go online providing power to customers on September 4th, 1882. It is now displayed at Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan.