The "Jumbo" Dynamo in Its Original Setting, Edison's Pearl Street Lighting Station, New York, New York, circa 1890
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Edison's successful lighting experiments at his Menlo Park laboratory in 1879 bore fruit in the practical system he put into operation in New York City, at the center of which was the Pearl Street power station. This was the first engine-generator to go online providing power to customers on September 4th, 1882. The sole surviving engine-generator from that installation, it is now displayed at Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan.
Edison's successful lighting experiments at his Menlo Park laboratory in 1879 bore fruit in the practical system he put into operation in New York City, at the center of which was the Pearl Street power station. This was the first engine-generator to go online providing power to customers on September 4th, 1882. The sole surviving engine-generator from that installation, it is now displayed at Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan.
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
circa 1890
Keywords
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
2003.0.23.1
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Color
Brown
Dimensions
Height: 8.063 in
Width: 9.938 in
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