Electric+Industry

= = = THE ELECTRIC INDUSTRY = George Westinghouse wanted to find a way to send to send electricity over long distances. He developed a device called transformer. It allowed electricity to be efficiently transmitted over distances. It made possible for electric to be in homes and businesses located far from electric generating plant.
 * [[image:thomas_edison_picture.jpg width="150" height="136"]]The first time electric ever begin was when Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. He didn't actually invent the light bulb, but found a solution for it to have a longer life. He came up with a light bulb that can burn for 15 hundred hours. He also invented the phonograph, It was a record player which rotating records caused a stylus to vibrate and the vibrations amplified acoustically or electronically.

In Fox River City, the first plant to commercially generate electricity was built and opened. First commercial power station was located in Manhattan. Westinghouse saw the potential of electric and started his own company called Westinghouse Electric Company.

The electric current flowing through the plant causes a shutdown on all functions needed for life to be sustained. The first public electricity in homes was in London. During the years, the service improved.

New houses and apartments had electricity from about 1905- 10 or maybe earlier. Suburban homes had electricity before older inner city houses. The first commercial product to utilize electricity in conjunction with a residential house was the lighting rod, and was invented by Ben Franklin in 1752. The modern electric utility industry began in the 1880s. It evolved from gas and electric carbon-arc commercial and street lighting systems. Electric utilities spread rapidly in the 1890s. T__hree major__ characteristics mark the electric utility industry in the 1950s: robust growth, the introduction of commercial nuclear power, and other public power expansion replacing Federal power** **g****rowth.** **By the end of the 1880s, small central stations had many U.S. cities, which was limited to a few blocks' area because of transmission inefficiencies of direct current.** **During the 1960s high electricity growth rates continued. Generation by nuclear power rose to over 1 percent of the U.S total by 1970. The early 1980s were marked by almost no growth in the U.S. electric utility industry. In 1982 total net generation dropped more than 2 percent. In 1970, electric utilities supplied 93 percent of the electricity generated in the United States. It was produced by nonutilities.

Today, electricity is growing and growing every single day. Its in homes, buildings, even in electronics... such as ipods, cell phones, lap tops, cameras, and many more. One day this industry would grow maximum and expand in the world.**

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