I find it both amazing and sad, in the way we take stuff like this for granted. Just imagine the marvel when this house was first powered with electric lights, this must have been quite a sight.
I think we all take too much in modern living for granted. Who stops to think of the technological breakthrough that was the ball-point pen? Or the refrigerator? Or the smoke alarm? Or the insulated chimney for wood stoves?
that electricity meter seems pretty easy to cheat sometime before they send in the meterman to weigh your plate, take the plate out and scrape the zinc off it or dissolve some off in an acid bath
I have all ways wondered where the first electricians came from to do the wiring. I have thought they may have been carpenters as all the well made timber insulators and timber ducting with the groves in it to accommodate the wires and the capping neatly screwed on top all corners mitred. Off course they would had some training as to where to run the wires in this case most likely from Edison and or his assistants .
There was a dark side to this story that is never told. Early in the century thousands of hobbyists had electrified farms. Many with windmills or small engines which charged batteries. In the 30s in the depth of the great depression local and in some cases federal governments, used their monopoly on violence to forcefully destroy, without due process or compensation tens of thousands of these systems that had provided these farms electricity for lights and connected them to the world via radio. Large wealthy investors had bribed politicians to give them a monopoly on generating domestic power over large areas. Those monopolies held back the development of wind power for many decades. Utilities still have these enforced monopolies in many countries. Nothing holds back progress like a monopoly enforced by the threat of violence by a corrupt state... Yet they are at it again wanting to eliminate Range Extended Electric Vehicles, (REEV) hybrid and Internal combustion engines in vehicles. Do they not know that the generated power on the grid puts about a pound of CO2 into the air for each kWh delivered. Using the EPA estimates on carbon emission, the grid's energy mix means that every kilowatt-hour of electricity generates 1.336 pounds of carbon dioxide. Many REEVs generate just .4 pounds per Kwh. Which means they are three times cleaner than a Tesla. And now they want to outlaw everything but grid-powered EVs. If we let Musk and the Utility association get their monopoly there will be more injustice in the future and a slowing of technical advancement in reducing CO2 output.
You had me at electric monopolies not being a good thing; lost me at the modern conspiracy theory of forced grid-charged EVs. Tesla (company) is one of the biggest contributors to solar PV, energy storage, and distributed energy that can be owned by a customer. Solar from a roof to an EV is as clean as it gets. And to be fair, I do agree REEVs have a small place too.
Under hard lobby efforts California Air Resources Board (CARB) mandate that REEV could not have gas tanks larger than 2.5 gallons. The market is not free. Which is why thousands of western engineers took there inovative ideas to China... Smart move America... The REEV concept produces less CO2, about 0.2 kg/kWh where as a coal plant produces about 1.1 kg/kWh, and the average for the grid is 0.6 kg/kWh. Their batteries are also lighter by up to 400 kg, so they don't start with a 20 ton CO2 deficit. Being lighter makes them handle better, stop shorter, and safer. They are also far less expensive. America's answer, put a 100% Tariff on them... REEVs are the future, EVs will die out in time, just check out their resale value, or even better check out how popular they are in junkyards and with insurance companies.
I find it both amazing and sad, in the way we take stuff like this for granted. Just imagine the marvel when this house was first powered with electric lights, this must have been quite a sight.
I think we all take too much in modern living for granted. Who stops to think of the technological breakthrough that was the ball-point pen? Or the refrigerator? Or the smoke alarm? Or the insulated chimney for wood stoves?
Shir should be free at this point /
This is so interesting I enjoyed it and love watching history about electricity 😎😎👍✌️✌️
I want to visit this home one day
that electricity meter seems pretty easy to cheat
sometime before they send in the meterman to weigh your plate, take the plate out and scrape the zinc off it or dissolve some off in an acid bath
I have all ways wondered where the first electricians came from to do the wiring. I have thought they may have been carpenters as all the well made timber insulators and timber ducting with the groves in it to accommodate the wires and the capping neatly screwed on top all corners mitred. Off course they would had some training as to where to run the wires in this case most likely from Edison and or his assistants .
How come there are four wires going to the house rather than two for 120 volts the fuse box would have been interesting to show also
(2:31) 100 years of in house power? Wow
That meter! xD
There was a dark side to this story that is never told. Early in the century thousands of hobbyists had electrified farms. Many with windmills or small engines which charged batteries. In the 30s in the depth of the great depression local and in some cases federal governments, used their monopoly on violence to forcefully destroy, without due process or compensation tens of thousands of these systems that had provided these farms electricity for lights and connected them to the world via radio. Large wealthy investors had bribed politicians to give them a monopoly on generating domestic power over large areas. Those monopolies held back the development of wind power for many decades. Utilities still have these enforced monopolies in many countries. Nothing holds back progress like a monopoly enforced by the threat of violence by a corrupt state... Yet they are at it again wanting to eliminate Range Extended Electric Vehicles, (REEV) hybrid and Internal combustion engines in vehicles. Do they not know that the generated power on the grid puts about a pound of CO2 into the air for each kWh delivered. Using the EPA estimates on carbon emission, the grid's energy mix means that every kilowatt-hour of electricity generates 1.336 pounds of carbon dioxide. Many REEVs generate just .4 pounds per Kwh. Which means they are three times cleaner than a Tesla. And now they want to outlaw everything but grid-powered EVs. If we let Musk and the Utility association get their monopoly there will be more injustice in the future and a slowing of technical advancement in reducing CO2 output.
32 volt DC farm systems. Nobody destroyed them, they just became obsolete when grid power was availible
You had me at electric monopolies not being a good thing; lost me at the modern conspiracy theory of forced grid-charged EVs.
Tesla (company) is one of the biggest contributors to solar PV, energy storage, and distributed energy that can be owned by a customer. Solar from a roof to an EV is as clean as it gets.
And to be fair, I do agree REEVs have a small place too.
Under hard lobby efforts California Air Resources Board (CARB) mandate that REEV could not have gas tanks larger than 2.5 gallons. The market is not free. Which is why thousands of western engineers took there inovative ideas to China... Smart move America... The REEV concept produces less CO2, about 0.2 kg/kWh where as a coal plant produces about 1.1 kg/kWh, and the average for the grid is 0.6 kg/kWh. Their batteries are also lighter by up to 400 kg, so they don't start with a 20 ton CO2 deficit. Being lighter makes them handle better, stop shorter, and safer. They are also far less expensive. America's answer, put a 100% Tariff on them... REEVs are the future, EVs will die out in time, just check out their resale value, or even better check out how popular they are in junkyards and with insurance companies.
I also enjoyed it being Thomas Edison’s home😎😎
Did people always have to pay for electricity in their homes?
And then came DTE