The Pearl St. Power Station

We take electricity for granted, but, like all services power generation had to have a beginning. The first power station designed to be a service and not a novelty, was built on Pearl Street and Fulton in 1884 using Edison's doomed direct current system.
The station is no longer there and the buildings that housed the Pearl St station were sold by Edison in 1895.
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[@aigslmnop]

lighting was very low voltage at the time so electric power couldn't be transmitted far edison experimented with batteries so was still ahead of the times in a way if it's considered in terms of today; incandescence, grid scale batteries and so on it's a shame the potential of the gaseous voltaic battery (fuel cell) seems to have been overlooked until much later

[@oneminutewalkingtour]

Thanks for your input!

[@theodornymark4395]

whats the adress of the memorial ?

[@oneminutewalkingtour]

The Titanic memorial? Or the Pearl St station?

[@DavidBerquist334]

Do these generators still work and what voltage did they put out and was it 3 phase or single phase

[@oneminutewalkingtour]

The power station was torn down in the 20th century. I believe the generators are in a museum but how they functioned? I don’t know

[@DavidBerquist334]

​​@@oneminutewalkingtour they are interesting do you know what museum and will they know if they are 3 phase and what the voltage is for outputi thought you were just there 2 months ago when you uploaded

[@oneminutewalkingtour]

@@DavidBerquist334 The station was originally powered by custom-made Porter-Allen high-speed steam engines designed to provide 175 horsepower at 700 rpm,The station burned down in 1890, destroying all but one dynamo that is now kept in the Greenfield Village Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.