Cragside, first house lit by hydroelectricity
Cragside, primera casa con electricidad hidroeléctrica
- Date
- 1878 · confidence high
- Place
- Rothbury, Northumberland, United Kingdom
- Credited to
- William Armstrong
- Field
- Matter & energy
What was discovered
Armstrong installed a water turbine and dynamo on his estate to light an arc lamp in 1878, and Swan lamps in 1880. Cragside was the world's first house lit by hydroelectric power.
It was a private installation, not a network; it matters as the first domestic demonstration with hydropower.
What it led to
- private and village micro hydropower plants
- domestic lighting with Swan lamps
- demonstration of small-scale power generation