Pearl Street Station
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Pearl Street Station was the first central power plant in the United States and the second in the world (the first was built in Godalming in Britain). It was located at 255-257 Pearl Street in Manhattan on a site measuring 50 by 100 feet. [1]It began with one direct current generator, and it started generating electricity on September 4, 1882, serving an initial load of 400 lamps at 85 customers. By 1884, Pearl Street Station was serving 508 customers with 10,164 lamps.[1]
The station was built by the Edison Electric Illuminating Company, which was headed by Thomas Edison.
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Edison" by Matthew Josephson. McGraw Hill, New York, 1959, pg. 255. ISBN 07-033046-8
- Pearl Street Station: The Dawn of Commercial Electric Power
- Edison: His Life and Inventions
- Edison Electric Institute. History of the Electric Power Industry. Retrieved 13 April 2005.
- Smithsonian Institution. Emergence of Electrical Utilities in America. Retrieved 13 April 2005.
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