text: Columbus' Electrical History: Gas Plants And First Electrical Repairs
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  Columbus' Electrical History
  Columbus' Electrical History: Gas Plants And First Electrical Repairs
  Every day, people around the world plug in their computers, take their smartphones off their charging sockets and access electronic information. Electricity has become a fact; it is everywhere and unseen. It shoulders about 80% of the world's everyday activities across fields and industries.
  America discovered electricity in the 19th century, introducing new production machines that helped paved the way for better innovations. Columbus had one of the world's first gas plants that generated electricity for streetlights and eventually further changes, which gave rise to the electrician profession in Columbus, and later the entire world.
  Columbus' entire district benefited from lighting prototype streetlight systems halfway into the 19th century. However, the costs of running electricity services from private firms, including legendary American inventor and innovator Thomas Edison's Columbus Edison Electrical Light Company, the city's population found too expensive at an annual $70,000 in expenses.
  Following a majority vote, the city built its first gas plant to power its streetlights by the end of the 19th century. Later into the 20th century, electricians in Columbus Ohio found work with the municipal energy department to maintain the decorative arches of the city.
  Columbus Ohio Electrician – website
  Innovators Pave The Way For Industrial Age
  Late 19th century, Thomas Edison, along with other inventors such as Charles Brush and Benjamin Lamme contributed many electricity-based inventions into Columbus. Edison introduced the Tungsten-based filament as the best filament for the incandescent light bulb; Charles Brush provided his latest creation, arc lighting; and Benjamin Lamme established several optimizations to the use of electricity before the end of the 19th century.
  Innovators helped pave the way for Columbus to become a city of entrepreneurs and industry using electricity to create factories, and light up government and business offices.
  Powered Everything
  The first gas plant in Ohio helped create the first electric trolley in High Street and Ohio State Fairgrounds. The local Columbian Government arranges with Columbus Edison Co. to operate the streetcar it developed exclusively. Wired and electric transportation helped public commute services improve before and after the First World War.
  In other parts of the country, by the end of the 19th century, most of America's major cities are powered by electricity. Major power plants opened in Manhattan, once again with the help of Thomas Edison. Meanwhile, Nikola Tesla, a long-time rival of Edison, works with Westinghouse to create the Niagara Power Plant, which further helped power the country before the 20th century.
  Further technologies that came as gas plants from Columbus Ohio and beyond made electricity a huge industry and a perpetual necessity for the American citizen. The United States Government voted to regulate electric utilities, established in 1935. The US retired the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 in 2006 and only with amendments.
  Technologies during the time allowed electric-powered appliances to bring modern comforts into the home. It was during the early 20th century that washing machines, vacuum cleaners, and household refrigerators arrived into homes, vastly improving the quality of life in North America.
  A Perpetually-Needed Resource And Technology
  Electricity is unseen, yet it does many things from making life easier to processing information. It is a cornerstone of modern living in America and the entire world. Without electricity, the world would be in the dark in a literal and connotative manner.