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The Con Edison Energy Museum was a museum located at 145 East 14th Street in Manhattan in the Consolidated Edison Building. [1] It told the history of the company and displayed a series of exhibits related to Thomas Edison and the early years of electricity including a miniature version of the Pearl Street Station and a potential for the future.
Consolidated Edison acquired or merged with more than a dozen companies between 1936 and 1960. Con Edison today is the result of acquisitions, dissolutions, and mergers of more than 170 individual electric, gas, and steam companies. Consolidated Edison acquired land on the Hudson River in Buchanan, NY, in 1954 for the Indian Point nuclear power ...
The Consolidated Edison Building (also known as the Consolidated Gas Building and 4 Irving Place) is a neoclassical skyscraper in the Gramercy neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, United States. The 26-story [a] building was designed by the architectural firms of Warren and Wetmore and Henry Janeway Hardenbergh.
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The models still exist and are on display at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.; at the Consolidated Edison Learning Center in Long Island City, New York; and at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. Up to 31 people worked on constructing the models which took about 6 months to complete.
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The Edison Illuminating Company was purchased by Consolidated Gas in 1901. In 1936, with electricity sales far outpacing gas sales, the company changed its name to Consolidated Edison . Today, Con Ed is a multi-billion dollar company that provides power to around 3.3 million people. [ 12 ]
"A History of the Consolidated Gas Electric Light and Power Company of Baltimore," written in 1928 by Delbert B. Lowe, recounts the origins of this groundbreaking utility and the pre-natural-gas ...