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Brush Electric Light Company
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| Name | Brush Electric Light Company |
| Ortssitz | Philadelphia (Penns.) |
| Straße | Ranstead Street 2011-2041 |
| Art des Unternehmens | Elektrizitätswerk |
| Anmerkungen | Adresse auch: 2030 Ludlow Street. Auch als "Brush Generating Station" bezeichnet. Die elektrische Ausrüstung wurde von der "The Brush Electric Co." (s.d.) in Cleveland geliefert, die Kessel von "Babcock & Wilcox" und die Dampfmaschinen von der "Southwark Foundry and Machine Company". |
| Quellenangaben | http://www.workshopoftheworld.com/center_city/brush.html [Philadelphia and popular Philadelphians (1891) 191] |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 1881 |
Die "Brush Electric Light Co.", Philadelphia, das erste Elektrizitätswerk in den Vereinigten Staaten, geht mit vier "Babcock & Wilcox"-Kesseln in Betrieb. |
| 1881 |
Gründung durch Thomas Dolan (1834 - 1914). Er hatte den City Select und Common Councils in Philadelphia vorgeschlagen, die Chestnut Street vom Schuykill zum Delaware River mit "so starken Lampen zu beleuchten, daß Zeitungen auf der Straße bei Nacht gelesen werden können". Der Kostenvoranschlag von $5,000 wird als zu teuer zurückgewiesen; dementsprechend bietet Dolan an, die Straßen für ein Jahr auf Kosten der Gesellschaft zu beleuchten. Ein Eigentum wird an der Johnson (später: Ranstead) Street erworben, direkt nördlich der Chestnut Street, zwischen den 20th und 21st Streets. |
| 1881 |
Milan C. Bullock ist auch Vertreter für die Brush Company (bis 1884) |
| 03.12.1881 |
Die 49 neuen Bogenlampen an 40 Fuß hohen, rot gestrichenen Eisenmasten werden eingeschaltet und machen die daneben befindlichen Gaslampen in der Chestnut Street "gelb und düster" aussehend. Diese Straßenbeleuchtugn ist die erste nützliche Anwendung der Elektrizität in Philadelphia. |
| 1884 |
Bau eines neuen Kesselhauses |
| Produkt |
ab |
Bem. |
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Kommentar |
| Elektrizität |
1881 |
Beginn am 03.12. |
1891 |
[Philadelphia] |
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Objekt |
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Betriebsteil |
Hersteller |
Kennwert |
Wert |
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Beschreibung |
Verwendung |
| 1881 |
Dampfmaschinen |
2 |
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Porter-Allen Engine Company |
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| 1881 |
Dampfmaschinen |
8 |
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Porter-Allen Engine Company |
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| 1881 |
Dampfmaschine |
1 |
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unbekannt |
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als "Greene" bezeichnet - Greene als Hersteller ist nicht eindeutig. |
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| ab Juli 1881 |
Dampfkessel |
4 |
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Babcock & Wilcox Co. |
Heizfläche ges. |
320 |
qm |
Wasserrohrkessel |
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Zeit = 1: Zeitpunkt unbekannt
| ZEIT | 1891 |
| THEMA | Beschreibung |
| TEXT | The Brush Electric Light Company, the subject of the accompanying illustrations, was the pioneer in electric lighting in the city of Philadelphia and among the first in the country. It was organized in June, 1881, by Messrs. Henry Lewis, Thomas Dolan, John Lowber Welsh, William Wood, William Arrott, Joseph B. Altemus, John Wanamaker, I. V. Williamson, A. D. Julliard and A. G. Paine, and commenced the supply of light on December 1st, of the same year, with a capacity of 300 lamps. At that date while the value of the arc lamp as an illuminant was generally admitted, the scepticism as to its commercial value and permanency was so great that even the promoters themselves viewed it only as experimental, and so great was the scepticism of the city authorities that the company, in order to make a practical demonstration, were obliged to cuter into an agreement with the city authorities to light Chestnut street with forty-nine lamps for one year without any expense whatever to the city. By the end of that time its value had been demonstrated and confidence in its permanency so thoroughly established that the demands for both public and commercial lighting compelled an increase the following summer of a hundred per cent, in the capacity of the plant and an increase in its capital stock from 200.000 to 1.000.000. Since that time there has been a gradual aud yearly addition made to the plant until
its output is now two thousand lights. The plant, though one of the oldest, is at the same time one of the best equipped and most efficient in the country. Its boiler room, with twenty-four boilers, its engine room, with its two pairs of Corliss, one Greene and two Porter-Allen engines with the requisite shafting, etc., and its dynamo room, with its thirty dynamos and all the paraphernalia incident to the electrical department, are the admiration of all who take an interest in things mechanical and electrical. Its lines, which cover a radius of five miles and which were constructed under the admirable rules of the city's department, are conceded to be the most substantial aud symmetrically arranged of any city in the country. Its present officers are: Thomas Dolan, President; T. A. Crowell,
Treasurer; A. J. DeCamp, Secretary and General Manager; Directors: Thomas Dolan, William Wood, Henry Lewis, Richard S. Brock, Charles O. Kruger, John Lowber Welsh, Joseph B. Altemus, Clement B. Newbold, John Boyd, A. D. Juilliard. |
| QUELLE | [Philadelphia and popular Philadelphians (1891) 191] |
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