First Three-Wire Electric Lighting

First Three-Wire Electric Lighting is a Pennsylvania historical marker in Northumberland County, dedicated 1947.

Front St. (PA 147)

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First successful use of a three-wire electric lighting system was made July 4, 1883, in the City Hotel building in Sunbury. Thomas A. Edison directed the work. The Edison Electric Illuminating Co. plant was at 4th and Vine Street.

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1872 · Schuylkill County. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1878 · Pennsylvania. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1883 · Pennsylvania. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1889 · Composite: Pennsylvania. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1893 · Sunbury, Pennsylvania (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Schuylkill County, 1872, covering the location of First Three-Wire Electric Lighting, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Schuylkill County, 1872, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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First Three-Wire Electric Lighting

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