Frenchman Georges Claude’s neon lighting at the Paris Motor Show was used to light the front of the large exhibition space at the Grand Palais with red lighting.
The Illuminations at the British seaside resort of Blackpool were turned on for the first time.
William Kemmler became the first person to be executed using an electric chair.
The incident at Three Mile Island heralded a dramatic shift in public attitudes towards nuclear power and the second reactor never returned to service.
Benjamin Franklin, the American polymath, accidentally electrocuted himself while attempting to kill a turkey.
80 red, white, and blue walnut-sized glass light bulbs were hand-wired and placed around a large Christmas tree in the home of Edward H. Johnson’s New York home on Fifth Avenue.
The Hoover Dam was known as the Boulder Dam at the time.
Thomas Edison began operating the first permanent commercial electrical power plant in New York.
The world’s first large-scale, alternating current power plant began producing electricity at Niagara Falls.
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