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Society: IEEE Main Category: Electric Sub Category: Era: 1870-1879 DateCreated: 1876 Boston State: MA Zip: 02203 Country: USA Website: http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestones:First_Intelligible_Voice_Transmission_over_Electric_Wire,_1876 Creator: Bell, Alexander Graham

The first transmission of intelligible speech over electrical wires took place on 10 March 1876. Inventor Alexander Graham Bell called out to his assistant Thomas Watson, “Mr. Watson, come here! I want to see you.” This transmission took place in their attic laboratory located in a near here at 5 Exeter Place. A pioneer in the field of telecommunications, Alexander Graham Bell was born in 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He moved to Ontario, and then to the United States, settling in Boston, before beginning his career as an inventor.

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2006
Image Credit: Courtesy IEEE Image Caption: The telephone used in the first intelligible transmission over electrical wires. Era_date_from: 1876
First Central Station in South Carolina
Society: IEEE Main Category: Electric Sub Category: Era: 1880-1889 DateCreated: 1882 United States Electric Illuminating Company Charleston State: SC Zip: 29401 Country: USA Website: http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestones:First_Central_Station_in_South_Carolina,_1882 Creator: Maxim, Hiram

The United States Electric Illuminating Company of Charleston started up South Carolina's first central station for incandescent lighting in October 1882 -- only one month after Thomas Edison opened his famous Pearl Street plant in New York City. In the following years, the company's parent firm was a major force in the growing electrical industry.

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1986
Image Credit: Courtesy IEEE Image Caption: The United States Electric Illuminating Company central station at 94 Queen Street. Era_date_from: 1882
AC Electrification of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (DUPE: IEEE+ASME)
Society: IEEE Main Category: Electrical Sub Category: Power, Energy & Industry Application Era: 1900-1909 DateCreated: 1907 New York to New Haven to Boston Cos Cob State: CT Zip: Country: USA Website: http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestones:Alternating-Current_Electrification_of_the_New_York,_New_Haven_%26_Hartford_Railroad,_1907 Creator: New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad , Westinghouse Electric

This was a pioneering venture in mainline railroad electrification. It established single-phase alternating current as a technical and economical alternative to direct current. This concept exerted considerable influence over subsequent systems both in the United States and abroad. The major components of the system were developed by the engineering staffs of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad and the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company of East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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1982
Image Credit: Courtesy of the New York Public Library. Image Caption: Alternating-Current Electrification of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Era_date_from: 1907
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AC Electrification of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (DUPE: IEEE+ASME)

This was a pioneering venture in mainline railroad electrification. It established single-phase alternating current as a technical and economical alternative to direct current. This concept exerted considerable influence over subsequent systems both in the United States and abroad. The major…

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First Central Station in South Carolina

The United States Electric Illuminating Company of Charleston started up South Carolina's first central station for incandescent lighting in October 1882 -- only one month after Thomas Edison opened his famous Pearl Street plant in New York City. In the following years, the company's parent firm…

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The first transmission of intelligible speech over electrical wires took place on 10 March 1876. Inventor Alexander Graham Bell called out to his assistant Thomas Watson, “Mr. Watson, come here! I want to see you.” This transmission took place in their attic laboratory located in a near here at…

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