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Revolutionary Light On Monday, September 4, 1882 at 3pm, 106 lamps were lit in the offices of Edison's financial backers. Fifty-two more lamps came on in the offices of the New York Times. Outside, the bright sun of a summer afternoon reduced the moment to anticlimax. But by evening people noticed what had happened: Edison's lamps threw light across rooms and out windows. Edison demonstrated the practicality of central power stations and a system that would transform the world. |
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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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