Electricity started out as a curious phenomenon. Mentions of static charges from rubbing amber date to the sixth century BC. The tinkerers who played with sulfur globe friction machines in the 1660s ...

Did you know a NECA member was in charge of the power system that supported the Woodstock music festival of 1969? Are you familiar with the intertwined history of NECA and IBEW? NECA history buffs ...

POWER magazine was launched in 1882, just as the world was beginning to grasp the implications of a new, versatile form of energy: electricity. During its 140-year history, the magazine’s pages have ...

Perhaps the person most responsible for selling electricity in its early days to Cedar Rapidians was Louise Hathaway. In the summer of 1909, Hathaway was hired as a temporary stenographer for ...

Hey all Ars EEs, got a question.<BR><BR>As I understand it, residential electricity was pioneered by Edison, and made viable by Westinghouse here in the US. I could be wrong, but that's why I'm asking ...

NORTH TONAWANDA – Sitting between Niagara Falls and Buffalo, the City of North Tonawanda happened to be in the right place at the right time –an “accident of location at the dawn of the age of ...

In The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, Marx famously observed, “Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: ...