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Let There Be (Electric) Light.

On this day, 9 April 1883. On 9 April 1883, the Edison company conducted the first ever demonstration of electric lighting in Queensland at the Government Printing Office, Brisbane. The representative of Edison was the wonderfully named Major S. Flood Page (General Manager, Edison’s Indian and Colonial Electric Light Company, Limited of London). The languageContinue reading “Let There Be (Electric) Light.”