was known as Thomas A. Edison’s Pearl Street Station in 1883. That same year, Wilkes-Barre’s Excelsior Electric Co. opened, marking the second power plant in the United States. Hazleton has been ...

Perhaps the person most responsible for selling electricity in its early days to Cedar Rapidians was Louise Hathaway. In the summer of 1909, Hathaway was hired as a temporary stenographer for ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The history of electric cars is going on display at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History with two electrifying cars from the early 20th century. A 1904 Columbia ...

Electricity powers nearly every aspect of modern life, yet its journey from a mysterious natural phenomenon to a cornerstone of civilisation is filled with remarkable discoveries and brilliant minds.

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