Electricity is the movement of electrons between ... which Englishman Joseph Swan had invented the year before. In April, twelve new and improved arc lamps attached to a small generator created ...

Within two years, Michael Faraday made history with the invention of the electric motor. Soon, entrepreneurs like Edison, Brush, Ferraris, von Siemens, Tesla, and Westinghouse were making headlines.

Prof. Perry, at the society of Arts last night, painted a most alluring picture of the future of electricity. Telegraphs, telophones, photophones, phonographs, microphones, and electric pens are ...