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Electricity In The 1800's

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Electricity is considered a necessity in the modern era, but it wasn’t always like that. Before electricity, the use of gas lamps and candles were commonplace. People worked around the sun, it was necessary for them to do their job with the natural light provided. Even appliances were basic, made for their purpose and nothing else.
But with the gilded age came a new innovation called electricity. It was a time of change, a time where anything could be possible if you worked at it. People used electricity to create many new technologies, things we consider required in our modern era, things like the refrigerator, or the vacuum. Electricity extended the hours people could work well beyond those given by the natural light. Many people considered these changes to be beyond science, they were afraid of what else could be achieved through the exploitation of electricity. The usage and methods for transporting electricity were topics of debate for years causing …show more content…

It would be used in places all over, doing all sorts of tasks, with factories springing up and making mass production the major means of production in the US. This would created thousands of jobs for people, with the labor force rising from 13 million people to 19 million people, to work and earn a meager amount of money. With these jobs however, came poor working conditions which would lead to labor unions being formed. With the boost of jobs, this increased the prosperity of the economy of the US. with this boost of economic power, which brought the economic wealth of the US from 16 Billion USD in 1860 to 88 Billion USD by 1900. The other major economic impact was simply, shocking. With the usage of electricity becoming commonplace, cities needed to wire their streets to increase availability, so they created the power grids we see today, except at first, they were

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