Three other Edison plants were operating in Massachusetts. Let there be light. The Hazleton Sentinel chronicled the plant’s progress. On Jan. 15, 1884, it reported that lights were expected in ...

Edison’s design team built six generators or dynamos for the Pearl Street station. Each “Jumbo,” as they were called, weighed 27 tons. They were driven by steam engines and could power 1,400 ...

Thomas Edison’s Pearl Street Station electrified a one-square-mile (2.6-square-kilometer) area of Lower Manhattan beginning September 4, 1882, providing power to illuminate his new electric light ...

Canton’s original power plant at 720 Second St. SE, designed by Thomas Edison, with legal work done by then attorney William McKinley.

The plan is to transform the former Boston Edison Power Plant into a 1.68M SF mixed-use area that will create commercial, residential, retail and hotel space, plus 5.7 acres of new open space.

Nikola Tesla would have celebrated his 158th birthday today (July 10). The Serbian-American scientist was a brilliant and eccentric genius whose inventions enabled modern-day power and mass ...