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HISTORY OF POWER GENERATION

• 1878 - Joseph Swan and Thomas Edison independently invented the carbon filament that produced light from electricity – incandescent lamp.
• 1879 – Thomas Edison founded the electric company, his greatest achievement – “Edison Electric Light Station”.
• 1882 – Carl de Laval invented steam turbine that drove electric generators more efficiently than earlier reciprocating steam engines. Coal then oil was used.
• 1884 – Charles Parsons constructs the first practical steam turbine electric generator to be driven by fuel-burning power plants in the electric power industry.
• 1895 – Niagara Falls – world’s first large-scale central generating station transmitts power 20 miles away to Buffalo and it employed 2-phase AC techniques of Nikola Tesla.
• 1905 - Albert Einstein publishes his “Theory of Relativity” and the equation E = m c2, foundation of nuclear power.
• 1907 – a new material called tungsten was used to replace carbon strips of bamboo as filament in the incandescent lamps

Other inventions that used electricity – electric trams and railways for urban transport, telephone and telegraph, phonograph, radio and television, incandescent and fluorescent lighting, electric motors and electric heating, refrigeration and air conditioning, computers and electronics – accelerated the need for larger and reliable generating plants.

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