Almost every newspaper reported on the miracle night in Duck Castle, and the novelty of electric lights suddenly became a topic of conversation on the streets of New York. Originally, according to Scrooge's idea, it was best to launch the electric light with the New York Tower. Think of how shocking it is to be brightly lit up in the dark of night with the lights of the New York Tower. However, the development of the electric light system was much faster than the construction of the New York Tower, and the development of the electric light took only a little more than two months under the conditions of nitrogen filling and direct selection of carbon filaments, and the completion of the New York Tower was still very early. The sooner the light is introduced, the sooner you can make money. Is it for a gimmick to let Scrooge start making money again for more than a year at night? It's like shooting yourself in the head. So, after the family members negotiated, the first stage of the electric light changed from the New York Tower to the Duck Castle.

But that doesn't mean the New York Tower is completely out of the picture. Compared to the suburban Duck Castle, the New York Tower was built directly in the heart of Manhattan. In that era, it was still very inconvenient to go to the suburbs in the middle of the night to see the night view, so although the night scene of Duck Fort was depicted in the newspaper as like paradise, there were still very few literary and artistic young people who really ran to see it without sleeping in the middle of the night. Well, some painters would have gone to sketch, but this is only a very small number after all. And running to the suburbs at night is also very problematic. Well, not long ago, there was a rumor that a certain painter with beautiful eyebrows was tragically attacked by criminals at night...... Well, it's really miserable, not only was the butt Yan zhòng injured, but even ...... Even the wallet was snatched up. After such a tragic story was born, well, there were a little more painters who came to sketch in the spirit of dedication to art, but no one would be stupid enough to bring a wallet.

The first time most people see electric lights is on the construction site of the New York Tower. Now that electric light is practical, there's no reason why the construction site of the New York Tower shouldn't use it. So at night, the construction site of the New York Tower is brightly lit, and nearly a thousand electric lights illuminate the construction site as bright as day. Even from miles away, one could see the sky lit up by lights. Under the light of the electric lights, the workers worked hard overnight to make money for each day they were put into use.

Many people who had never seen electric lights went to the vicinity of the construction site of the New York Tower to see the strangeness. Today's New York Tower has also been built to a one-story platform, which is already tens of meters high. Onlookers could see the light from the electric lights from a long distance. All the people who saw the construction workers working under the light of the electric lamp as if they were in the daytime without any obstacles, and they also felt that candles, kerosene lamps, etc., compared to electric lights, were really one on the earth and one in the sky. Now the question comes, learn electrical technology...... Oh, the most important question to ask is when we will be able to install this in our home.

It didn't take long for this question to be answered. A few days later, in the New York Daily Times, news of the formation of the McDonald Power Company was reported. The MacDonald family-owned company also announced its first investments: New York No. 1 Power Plant and New York Electric Light Plant.

"The McDonald Power Company spokesman told us: 'The total investment in the first plant will be as high as one million dollars, and the investment in the first phase will be about $250,000. The money will be used to build a power plant as well as a power supply network that connects the entire island of Manhattan. In fact, large-scale power units that can support the electricity of the whole of Manhattan have been manufactured for a long time, and the land and factory buildings of the power plant are almost ready. So the construction of the power plant itself will be quite fast, and in about two months, the power units should be able to start running electricity. Well, this is the time when we can also complete the training of workers and the installation of power lines......

There is no difference in nature between the current in the wire and the lightning. This is the pride of our America, as Mr. Franklin attested. And conquering thunder and lightning, and making it available to us, was also Mr. Franklin's dream back then. However, even if it is a tamed animal, improper use can bring danger. Just as if you don't ride a horse according to certain rules, you may fall off the horse's back and get hurt, and the unscientific use of electricity will also bring danger. Therefore, when using the convenience brought by electricity, we must also have a certain understanding of it......

In addition to the first power plant, the New York Electric Light Plant is also being prepared, in fact, this plant is even more in the state of the first power plant. All the equipment it needed was in place, the workers and machinery were ready, and even the trial production was completed – the electric lights used in Fort Duck and the New York Tower came from here. And its orders are already scheduled. It is said that the inhabitants of Manhattan Island (which is a wealthy area) have long ordered a large number of electric lights. In this way, in two months, the whole of Manhattan will be an island of light......"

The first electricity was sent to Manhattan, which was almost inevitable. Because any new gadget, when it comes out, the cost will always be a little higher. And Manhattan is a wealthy area of New York, a place where rich people gather, and only there can you find enough guys who don't care about electricity bills and don't care about changing a light bulb every 100 hours. However, the location of the first power plant is not in Manhattan, because the land price there is too high. In order to save money, the first power plant is still a little away from Manhattan, and it is deliberately located in its downwind direction. Because there is no big river near New York with a significant drop, clean hydroelectric power cannot be counted on, and only thermal power can be used.

The MacDonald family already had the technology for large steam turbines, and theoretically could run any fuel, whether coal, oil or gas. Taking into account the low price of oil now, the first power plant, of course, chose a heavy oil boiler that burned heavy oil. Interestingly, the beginning of electrification was a boon to the struggling oil industry, but instead of releasing the news that his power plant was burning oil, Scrooge kept advertising that electric lights would completely replace kerosene lamps. At that time, the main use of oil was kerosene lamps. So when the news of electric lights became more and more widely known in the newspapers, everything related to oil went down. Throughout the Northeast, the operators of the few other refineries that were still alive also lost confidence under the blow of this news, and rushed to sell the factories and pull them down before the electric light became widespread. Buyer, of course, Standard Oil.

Swallowing these half-dead refineries is actually not a big victory, and the most satisfying thing for Rockefeller is that the so-called oil prospects are not good, and some of the oil wells have lost confidence, so these oil wells have also become standard. When power plants and even ships around the country began to use petroleum fuels before long, there were not a few people who regretted jumping the New York Tower.

Large (by the standards of the time) steam turbines drove the electric motors, producing a steady stream of current, which was then boosted to 10 kilovolts by the transformers, which were then routed down to the transformers on Manhattan Island by the wires that were erected in the air by poles, and then stepped down to 22o volts per day. Well, considering that almost all electrical technologies are currently in the hands of Scrooge, the voltage standard set by Scrooge will definitely become the voltage standard in the United States. Well, as a traverser, Scrooge, almost without hesitation when deciding how much daily voltage to use, let the Americans comply with the Chinese standard once.

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"Mimi, it's so dark, why don't you turn on the lights, but the candles are lit?" Morgan asked his wife.

Morgan's home had just been fitted with electric lights, and the MacDonald Electric Company had sent someone to teach them how to use it.

"I didn't dare touch that switch," Mimi replied, "and I thought something was terrible when I heard the installer talk about it." ”

"Ah, where is that terrible. It's fine, as long as the hands are dry and the rope that pulls the lamp is dry, there will be no problem. And even that rope doesn't come into direct contact with anything electrically charged, and unless you pour a basin of water over it, it won't be electrified. "Men are always a little bit quicker than women to accept new things.

Morgan said as he reached for the switch wire. Mimi hurriedly grabbed Morgan: "Don't touch it!" The woman firmly grabbed Morgan and said, "Why don't we call a servant to turn on the light......

The servant turned on the light in the bedroom for Mr. and Mrs. Morgan, and then took their leave. The husband and wife talked in the room for a while, and the time was getting late. Morgan took out his pocket watch, glanced at it, and said in surprise, "Oops, if you light this lamp, you don't know the time." Mimi, guess what? ”

"What time is it?" Mimi thought for a while and said, "I've been talking, I forgot the specific time, I guess it's late, right?" ”

"It's ten o'clock in the evening. I can't imagine it. Morgan said, "It's still candles to use, and I've already lit several of them." Well, it's time to sleep. ”

"Well, let's sleep." Mimi said as she began to remove the ornaments from her head......

"Well, the lamp...... It's not over yet. Mimi's voice trembled.

"Hmm." Morgan sat up from the bed and was about to turn off the light, when he suddenly thought of something, and turned back to Mimi and said, "Mimi, shall we call the servant in and turn off the light now?" Isn't that good? Otherwise, don't turn off the lights tonight......" RG

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