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For street lighting, Electricity replaced Gas rather swiftly after 1884. 1895 steetcars were electrified and after 1902 the underground system being build also used electricity. For households, starting around 1890, gas was primarily used for ovens as a replacement for coal or wood. Even in the 1930's, electric ovens were still unpopular.
I'm trying to find a published source giving the percent of U.S. households having electricity and percent having telephones in 1940 (+/- a year or two). Not interested in the rural vs city divide per se, but, rather, the aggregate stats. The numbers don't need to be super accurate either -- I'm happy to read off of a graph.
It could be argued that steam set the stage then for electricity, leading to all sorts of things, I think all would agree. But interestingly, electricity was not the only way power was initially transmitted. Pneumatic power was used in private homes at one point iirc. –
Tenants of one of England’s largest housing groups say they have been left for years in ‘uninhabitable’ homes as experts warn social renters could be left with long-term health conditions as a result of damp and mouldy properties. From INews 28 March 2022. And also:
The 1920s was when rural areas and smaller urban areas started to get electricity. All major cities had electricty long before then. The minor cities and towns electrified in the 20s are probably too numerous to list.
Hellström S. (1998) The discovery of static electricity and its manifestation. In: ESD — The Scourge of Electronics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. Around the time of Thales - so 600 BC onwards, people thought that the static electricity force was connected to the rubbing process that caused it: this is what Thales thought, among others.
2. Although the first patent for an electric iron was awarded in 1882, their heating element remained very fragile, in need of regular replacement, until Thomas E. Morford thought of (and won a patent for) encasing the heating element in enamel in 1893. According to Concise History of Electric Irons in the United States power utilities didn't ...
@T.E.D. in fact, I did ask that question, although the other way around (I first asked if such a law had ever been used, and if not, whether such a law ever even existed). If you think the question would be better written the other way around, please feel free to edit it. –
She was illiterate, superstitious and ignorant. She was marked by disease, malnutrition and domestic violence. the whole concept of "stay at home mother" is a very modern one. Through most of US history, it was taken for granted that (at least for white women) motherhood was a full time occupation.
The aim was to ethnically, as well as religiously cleanse the centuries old Greek-(as well as Armenian) Christian residents of the city of Smyrna.....and it succeeded. In September, 1922, the Greek Christian residents of Smyrna were forcibly uprooted from their homes in Smyrna and primarily relocated to neighboring Greece-(particularly, Athens).