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DESCRIPTION:In October 1880\, Thomas A. Edison published “The Success of 
 the Electric Light\,” in The North American Review\,” to explain that 
 the adoption of his electric light for domestic use has been delayed “du
 e to the enormous mass of details which have to be mastered before the sys
 tem can go into operation on a large scale\, and on a commercial basis as 
 a rival of the existing system of lighting by gas.” The “enormous mass
  of details” would include further research and development to improve t
 he lamp\, founding companies to manufacture components\, and personally fu
 nding and supervising a company to build power plants. This talk will focu
 s on the Thomas A. Edison Central Station Construction Department\, a litt
 le-known entity founded by Edison himself in May 1883\, to construct direc
 t-current electric power stations in towns and cities throughout the Unite
 d States. It built thirteen central stations in Massachusetts\, New York\,
  Ohio\, and Pennsylvania before being absorbed by the Edison Company for I
 solated Lighting in October 1884\, coincidently\, around the time IEEE was
  founded. While Edison stepped away from the day-to-day central station bu
 siness\, he continued research in direct current and later alternating cur
 rent technology. And by the late 1880s\, he found himself dragged into a m
 edia war with George Westinghouse in what has become the mythical “battl
 e of the currents.” In 1887\, Edison opened a new and expanded research 
 laboratory in West Orange\, New Jersey and by 1890 his research and busine
 ss interests moved on to the improved phonograph\, the talking doll\, moti
 on pictures\, ore milling\, and other technologies.\n\nSpeaker(s): Dr Mary
  Ann Hellrigel\, \n\nRoom: Meeting Room\, Bldg: Oakton Library\, 10304 Lyn
 nhaven Pl\, Oakton\, Virginia\, United States\, Virtual: https://events.vt
 ools.ieee.org/m/432101
LOCATION:Room: Meeting Room\, Bldg: Oakton Library\, 10304 Lynnhaven Pl\, O
 akton\, Virginia\, United States\, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org
 /m/432101
ORGANIZER:murtyp@ieee.org
SEQUENCE:21
SUMMARY:Thomas Edison's Plan to Illuminate America in the Late Nineteenth C
 entury
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X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p>In October 1880\, Thomas A. Edison publish
 ed &ldquo\;The Success of the Electric Light\,&rdquo\; in <em>The North Am
 erican Review</em>\,&rdquo\; to explain that the adoption of his electric 
 light for domestic use has been delayed &ldquo\;due to the enormous mass o
 f details which have to be mastered before the system can go into operatio
 n on a large scale\, and on a commercial basis as a rival of the existing 
 system of lighting by gas.&rdquo\; The &ldquo\;enormous mass of details&rd
 quo\; would include further research and development to improve the lamp\,
  founding companies to manufacture components\, and personally funding and
  supervising a company to build power plants. This talk will focus on the 
 Thomas A. Edison Central Station Construction Department\, a little-known 
 entity founded by Edison himself in May 1883\, to construct direct-current
  electric power stations in towns and cities throughout the United States.
  It built thirteen central stations in Massachusetts\, New York\, Ohio\, a
 nd Pennsylvania before being absorbed by the Edison Company for Isolated L
 ighting in October 1884\, coincidently\, around the time IEEE was founded.
  While Edison stepped away from the day-to-day central station business\, 
 he continued research in direct current and later alternating current tech
 nology. And by the late 1880s\, he found himself dragged into a media war 
 with George Westinghouse in what has become the mythical &ldquo\;battle of
  the currents.&rdquo\; In 1887\, Edison opened a new and expanded research
  laboratory in West Orange\, New Jersey and by 1890 his research and busin
 ess interests moved on to the improved phonograph\, the talking doll\, mot
 ion pictures\, ore milling\, and other technologies.</p>
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