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I found it quite interesting how Edison and company were able to quickly market their products to a very wide group of people. Not only did the electric light take off in America, but in other countries. The reading mentioned that they installed electric lights in Russia, Chile, and Australia. To be able to do that in that time period so quickly is quite impressive. It was also interesting to see what kind of buildings and businesses adopted electricity first, like hotels and theaters, in order to draw in more business. - Brian Brown | I found it quite interesting how Edison and company were able to quickly market their products to a very wide group of people. Not only did the electric light take off in America, but in other countries. The reading mentioned that they installed electric lights in Russia, Chile, and Australia. To be able to do that in that time period so quickly is quite impressive. It was also interesting to see what kind of buildings and businesses adopted electricity first, like hotels and theaters, in order to draw in more business. - Brian Brown | ||
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| + | I thought the whole concept of electrically lighting skyscrapers to be fascinating. Just thinking that there wasn't a way to feasibly do this before Edison is just mind boggling. In addition, I found it rather ingenious of the owners of these buildings to light up there buildings as a sort of rudimentary electric build board for all to see. Additionally, the fact that different owners used different techniques in order to light their buildings to give off different impressions to be quite interesting. -Brian Brown | ||
