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While Edison’s Pearl Street Plant was still under construction, the founders of the Appleton Edison Electric Light Company – H. E. Jacobs, A. L. Smith, H. D. Smith, and Charles Beveridge – began planning the Vulcan Street Plant.
On September 30, 1882, the Vulcan Street Plant in the Appleton Pulp Mill became the first central-station plant in the world to generate electricity by combining the latest advances in hydro-power sites with one of Edison's new electrical generators.
Jacobs, a representative of the Western Edison Light Co. of Chicago, described Edison's steam-driven Pearl Street Station in New York City, and Rogers began to envision a water-powered plant along the Fox River in Appleton.
24 de oct. de 2011 · The Appleton Edison Light Company. To those familiar with Appleton, a small city on the Fox River in northeastern Wisconsin, it might seem like an unlikely site for a revolution in power generation.
In November 1882, a second dynamo belonging to the Appleton Edison Light Company began providing electric juice to two other homes near Vulcan Street. Before year’s end, several more homes, mills and even a blast furnace received electricity for lighting as well.
The North Island is home to a historical hydroelectric jewel—the Vulcan Replica. The Vulcan Replica was built for the 50th Anniversary of hydroelectric power in Appleton in 1932. The Replica is historic in its own right having been built 88 years ago.
The Western Edison Light Company established the Vulcan Street Plant in September 1882 along the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin. It was the first Edison hydroelectric station in North America to serve private and commercial customers with electricity, producing enough power to light an equivalent of 250 candles at 100 volts. H. J.
