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Making Power Available to the Masses Thomas Edison had produced the technological means by which electricity could be supplied to everyone, but it would be his young British assistant who would prove to the world that electricity could be made available to all. In New York, the blocks of the well-to-do were wired over the next few years, but there the wiring stopped. Showing the way to a more democratic supply and distribution of electricity would fall to Edison's former clerk, Samuel Insull. |
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  How engineers contained and controlled the Colorado and Mississippi rivers. Thomas Edison lights up New York City; Sam Insull brings power to Chicago; and TVA electrifies rural America Constructing the George Washington Bridge Putting a major highway under Boston  |
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