FIRST POWER PLANT
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 19. The world’s first commercial electric lighting plant, invention of Thomas Alva Edison, was auctioned ofY for £430 yesterday to the Franklin Institute, sole bidder.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19883, 9 March 1939, Page 5
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