File:Brush Company arc light madison square new york 1882.png

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Charles Graham  (1852–1911)  wikidata:Q26695990
 
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Charles S. Graham
Description American painter, illustrator, engraver and landscape painter
Date of birth/death 1852 Edit this at Wikidata 1911 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Rock Island Edit this at Wikidata New York City Edit this at Wikidata
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English: A Brush Electric Company arc street light in an illustration by Charles Graham in the January 14, 1882 issue of Harper’s Weekly depicting "The Electric Light in Madison Square, New York". Street arc lighting was demonstrated at the Paris Exposition of 1878 and within a decade scores of cities would have arc lighting systems that were supplanting street gas lighting gaslight systems of the period. In the US the Brush Electric Company set up a central station in December 1880 to supply a 2-mile (3.2 km) length of Broadway in New York City with arc lighting.
Date 1882
date QS:P571,+1882-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Source/Photographer Harper’s Weekly, January 14, 1882

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