Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1901 — GROWTH OF ELECTRIC LIGHT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GROWTH OF ELECTRIC LIGHT.

Beyond any Question the most marvelous development of the century in the field of applied science may be seen in the electric lighting industry. There is nothing comparable to it in

the whole history of civilization. The average layman who sees the streets of the modern city and its stores made as light as day has little conception of the amazing growth of the industry that has arched the highways of human progress with millions upon millions of Incandescent bulbs and now is invading the rural districts of the greatest nation upon which the sun shines. (The Inventor of the Electric Light.) The electric light was exhibited for the first time in the United States at the Centennial Exposition, but those who saw it were skeptical regarding the possibility of using it upon any scale that would be of practical benefit to mankind. While arc lighting was produced upon a commercial scale in 1.877, the real history of the art as regards its modern aspects dates from the opening of the Pearl street station in New York city by Thomas A. Edison on Sept. 4, 1882, in which the Edison incandescent lamp was used.

THOMAS A. EDISON.