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 ...

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 ...

Historical research is like 19th-century municipal electricity projects: sometimes, the light comes unexpectedly. A long-distance correspondence between a Nevada novelist and Eileen McHugh, executive ...

You walk into a dark room, flip a switch, and voila! a light comes on, just as you expected it would. Electricity lights our homes, regulates our furnaces, runs our appliances and televisions, and ...