Brush arc lamp and public lighting
Lámpara de arco y alumbrado público de Brush
- Date
- 1876-1879 · confidence high
- Place
- Cleveland, Ohio, United States
- Credited to
- Charles F. Brush
- Field
- Matter & energy
What it is
Brush perfected a high-power dynamo and arc lamps with two carbons in series, and on 29 April 1879 lit Cleveland's Public Square. It was the first public electric lighting system in the United States.
What it led to
- arc street lighting in US cities
- the US electrical industry (Brush Electric Company)
- competition that drove Edison's incandescent light