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But one thing we often forget is all the electricity that makes everyday tasks so much more efficient.
Built in , the White House has only been electrified for over a century. However, President and Mrs. Harrison feared electrocution and never touched the light switches themselves. One may also ask, where does the White House get its electricity?
The Edison Company installed a generator for both buildings, with wires strung across the lawn and introduced into the White House under the conservatory. Wires were buried in the plaster, with round switches installed in each room for turning the current on and off.
Electric lighting was installed in the White House in Few people at the time had enough faith in electric lighting to use it exclusively-its use was barely a decade old.
Finally, in the early s, Thomas Edison invented a way to create light by sending electricity through a tiny wick inside a special glass bulb. Although Edison invented the device in New Jersey, the first home lit by electricity was in Appleton, where mill-owner Henry Rogers illuminated his house on Sept. Built in , the White House has only been electrified for over a century. President Benjamin Harrison and his wife Caroline were the first to live in an electrified White House , but electricity was so new at the time that the couple refused to touch the light switches for fear of electric shock.
What president was afraid of electricity?
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