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1880s–1890s

Alternating-current power systems

1880s–1890s · Europe and United States

Documentary view of Alternating-current power systems.
Ten 5,000 HP Westinghouse generators at Edward Dean Adams Power Plant in Niagara Falls, the first large-scale, alternating current electric generating plant in the world, built in 1895.Works of the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Source record