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brook Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-11-04 06:32 PM
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24. My Mom...
was born in 1907. She remembered gas lights in the house - but I always had the feeling she was pretty young when the electric was installed. They were moderately well-off, so I think they'd have gotten it as soon it became available. I'm guessing 1912ish?
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  -Electricity first appeared in homes in what year? Gothic_Sponge  Oct-11-04 11:47 AM   #0 
  - WIdespread, probably 1919-1920  BareKnuckledLiberal   Oct-11-04 11:48 AM   #1 
  - hey you guys have them electric lights ?  jdots   Oct-11-04 12:14 PM   #18 
     - "Rural Electrification"  BareKnuckledLiberal   Oct-11-04 06:20 PM   #23 
  - Oh, It's Definitely Before 1920  ribofunk   Oct-11-04 11:49 AM   #2 
  - I think you are right - I recall that the light bulb was invented  olddem43   Oct-11-04 11:51 AM   #3 
  - Well, the Electricity House at the 1893 world's fair in Chicago was  flamingyouth   Oct-11-04 11:53 AM   #4 
  - DId you Google that, or was it stuck in your brain?  Gothic_Sponge   Oct-11-04 11:58 AM   #6 
     - Sadly, it's stuck in my brain  flamingyouth   Oct-11-04 12:00 PM   #9 
        - Hooray for nerdism!  Fenris   Oct-11-04 12:02 PM   #12 
        - Can you tell me the history of plumbing?  Gothic_Sponge   Oct-11-04 12:02 PM   #13 
           - I do know that King Minos of Crete had the first flushing toilet  flamingyouth   Oct-11-04 12:08 PM   #15 
  - In my family  MADem   Oct-11-04 11:54 AM   #5 
  - Wow! The late 20s!  Gothic_Sponge   Oct-11-04 12:01 PM   #10 
     - It was SOP for the neighborhood  MADem   Oct-11-04 12:26 PM   #20 
  - before 1900 - certaianly  amber dog democrat   Oct-11-04 11:59 AM   #7 
  - nevermind  DS1   Oct-11-04 12:00 PM   #8 
  - It Depends Where You Live  CO Liberal   Oct-11-04 12:02 PM   #11 
  - 1956! Damn!  Gothic_Sponge   Oct-11-04 12:05 PM   #14 
     - Yep - 1956  CO Liberal   Oct-11-04 12:10 PM   #16 
     - Commonwealth Edison story:  Inland   Oct-11-04 12:13 PM   #17 
        - Figures the Republicans  MADem   Oct-11-04 12:29 PM   #21 
           - "And they left the lights on all night." nt  Inland   Oct-11-04 01:15 PM   #22 
  - Edison invented the precursor to the modern light bulb in 1879...  claudiajean   Oct-11-04 12:17 PM   #19 
  - My Mom...  brook   Oct-11-04 06:32 PM   #24 
  - There is a house in Texarkana, TX  ChoralScholar   Oct-11-04 09:44 PM   #25 
 

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