In five pages this paper examines the impact of electricity in the U.S. from fire to coal gas with newspaper reports included. Three sources are in the bibliography.
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and enthusiasm over electricitys beginnings could be heard from one coast to the next. (Newspaper accounts are used as reporting tools) Bibliography lists 3 sources. BBebulbR.doc THANK
YOU MR. EDISON! (History of Electricity in the U.S.) Written by B. Bryan Babcock for the Paperstore, Inc., November 2000 Introduction
Prior to the electric light bulb, illumination was by fire from candles, kerosene and oil lamps, and coal-gas jets. With the advent of electricity, the advantages of electric lamps for
interior lighting over flickering, sooty, open flames were readily apparent, and demand for electricity skyrocketed. The excitement and enthusiasm over electricitys beginnings could be heard from one coast to
the next. The City On Thursday evening of this week occurred the celebration of the introduction of electrical illumination in the city of Anaheim. It was a brilliant success
from beginning to end, and general expressions of enthusiastic congratulations were to heard on every hand. The occasion has proved once and for all that the citizens of Anaheim
are not stoically dead, but can become just as enthusiastic when the case requires it as the people of other places. W.A. Rugg, The Independent, discussing the launching of
electricity in the City of Anaheim April 13, 1895. On April 11, 1895 the municipal electric system "commenced" operation serving a customer base of 145 incandescent bulbs and 22 arc
lamps. At the time consumers paid a rate of thirty cents per kilowatt hour. (Today Anaheim residents pay about ten cents per kilowatt hour.) (http:/ / www.anaheim.net/ utilities/ elechist.html).
The Country Prior to 1935 rural electrification for Nobles and Murray (MN) counties was only a dream in the minds of a few progressive men in those two counties. It