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Edison Electric's central station, Sunbury, PA, 1883.
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Courtesy of Edison National Historic Site
In the summer of 1883 it took Thomas Edison's engineers just three weeks to build a coal-fired electrical power plant in this makeshift building on Fourth Street.
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