Menlo Park / Nassau / New York / Dearborn / London / New York City / /
Company
Hinds / Ketcham & Company / the New York Times / Edison Electric Illuminating Company / Drexel / Morgan & Company / Aldermen / THE TIMES / Con Edison / Consolidated Edison Company / New York Edison Company / Siemens / /
Continent
North America / Europe / South America / /
Country
Germany / Japan / United States / United Kingdom / /
Pearl Street Station Site Today The Pearl Street station / Holborn Viaduct / THE TIMES Building / Electric Service The Pearl Street station / BUILDING ILLUMINATED BY ELECTRICITY / Henry Ford Museum / Pearl Street station / /
IndustryTerm
low-voltage central-station electric systems / heavy equipment / machinery / gas fixtures / lamp technology / electric energy / indoor applications / economical gas lighting systems / electricity / linseed oil / printing / ac technology / gas-burner / electric utility systems / /
NaturalFeature
Atlantic Ocean / East River / /
Organization
Board of Underwriters / New York City Board of Aldermen / Electric Service / U.S. Department of the Interior / National Park Service / Smithsonian Institution / American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society / /
Person
Osborne / Michael von Dolivo-Dobrowolsky / Werner Siemens / Nicola Tesla / Lucien Gaulard / Humphry Davy / Thomas Alva Edison / Pearl Streets / Robert Lobenstein / John W. Lieb / John Gibbs / Elihu Thomson / Fulton Streets / George Westinghouse / William Stanley / Thomas Edison / Carl Sulzberger / /
Position
chemist and physicist / chief engineer / entrepreneur / Artist / unnamed reporter / own chief engineer / chief / /
Product
Building / /
ProvinceOrState
New Jersey / Michigan / /
PublishedMedium
Scientific American / THE TIMES / The Advent / New York Times / the New York Times / /
For most of the 19th century, inventors in Europe and in North America worked to bring about electrical lighting