1752 Benjamin Franklin conducts his famous kite experiment.
1820 Electricity and magnetism are proven to be related.
1821 Michael Faraday invented the first electric motor.
1876 Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone.
1879 Thomas Edison invents the incandescent light bulb.
1903 Electric washing machine is invented.
1933 President Roosevelt and the New Deal create Tennessee Valley Authority.
1935 The first Major League Baseball game played under the lights.
1935 Rural Electrification Administration (REA) forms.
1935 First REA-financed electric co-op line goes up.
2003 Power grid failure darkens Northeast United States.
2005 Broadband over powerline may be the next frontier in electricity.
