The first battle in the history of lighting

If now the fashionable move is holding iPhone, iPad, radio, television, mobile phone has been as synonymous with fashion, then, 130 years ago with incandescent lighting should be said is the most striking.

Thomas Edison was one of the world's most famous dreamers in the 1879, the greatest inventor of the United States who invented the incandescent bulb, and he was the world's first master of the incandescent light bulb.

At the end of the spring of 1882, Edison often entered the Wall Street 23 Morgan Construction Company, Morgan's investment company is the United States in the downtown business district of, the first incandescent production plant investment partners in Manhattan. When Edison visited this house in Drexel Morgan house, the young inventor always clean shaven (he was 35 years old, has become a celebrity), often ironic love gas lights in this office, said they were "making". As a matter of fact, the gas lamp will soon be gone, and it will be replaced by a clean and lovely lamp invented by Edison.

At the turn of the spring and summer, Edison had the opportunity to reach an agreement with Morgan, will be living in the rich residential areas of the rich street of the main street of the residence of the city of China, the installation of the incandescent lamp on the light of the president of the people's Republic of China, in the light of the light of the Chinese people, who lived in the rich residential area of the main street in the rich area of the main street of. Italian style Morgan mansion took the lead in the use of electric lighting in New York, which is a great feat. Morgan requirements, to the fall of that year, when he and his wife Fan Ni and three teenage children from the Hudson River to the city country villa, when all the lights have to be installed, and can be used normally.

Edison is overjoyed, with Mr. Morgan's generous help, all of his invention as unsafe and unacceptable statement will be vulnerable.

The evening of June 17, 1882, Morgan mansion brightly lit, Morgan is very satisfied with the light, the control of the 250 lights of the motor sparks, need to quickly replace the technical staff of the Morgan Construction Company were processed. By the autumn, when the social season began in New York, the home of the Wall Street financial boss had been fitted with 385 lights that lit up every corner of the room. From the room to the kitchen servant room from the bedroom to the living room and the Japanese hall, around the soft radiance.

The lamp was a symbol of luxury. Morgan's mansion embodies money and power, but it also shows his unique European upbringing, cultural level and superhuman talent. Of course, the most striking and unconventional is Edison's electric light. At that time, the magazine "art house" (AristicHouses), said: "each room is equipped with lights, lighting, simply press the switch. Mr Morgan, by simply pressing the switch on the bedside table, can open the hall, the first floor of each room and the basement lights, which is useful to prevent burglars from entering the room. "

But at that time, the electrical device is far from today's convenience. The gas is ignited, all quiet, but when the sun goes down, Mr. Morgan's steam engine and motor was deafening roar. The machines were so loud that Mr Morgan's neighbors complained that his whole house was shaking.

Of course, it's not just that. The steam engine is coal, and it's annoying smoke. Mr Morgan assured his aggrieved neighbors that the experts at the company of Edison would come to repair the machine themselves. Another time, the circuit is not good enough to burn Morgan's beautiful study.

All this gave Morgan a lot of trouble, but Morgan did it. As an investor in several railroads, he has to face the ever emerging new technology, which is nothing to him. If there are no numerous efforts, how can the Atlantic submarine cable be paved?

Electric lighting was a fashionable and expensive thing in the early 1880s, and the difference between the rich and the poor. At that time, New York's richest man and non president of the New York central railway is the largest individual shareholders William vanderbilt. Originally, is required to become New York Vanderbilt's first electric lighting.

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