Electricity started out as a curious phenomenon. Mentions of static charges from rubbing amber date to the sixth century BC. The tinkerers who played with sulfur globe friction machines in the 1660s ...

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 ...

In The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, Marx famously observed, “Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: ...

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.