DescriptionLaying the electrical Tubes electric lines under street Edison Pearl Street Utility June 21 1882 Harpers Weekly - detail.png
English: Detail from an illustration from the June 21, 1882 Harper's Weekly titled "The Electric Light In Houses : Laying The Tubes For Wires In The Streets Of New York." The illustration records the construction of Thomas Edison's first domestic incandescent lamp electric utility in New York City with the central station at Pearl Street. Edison's company chose to bury its power lines under the streets instead of mounting them on poles.
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June 21, 1882 Harper's Weekly
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W. P. Snyder
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