The giant electric signs and marquees were lit up for the first time since blackout regulations had been instituted, and the atmosphere was alive with the feeling that victory was just around the corner.

The first mention of an electric plant in Manchester seems to be one installed in Reuben Colvin's and Houghton's gristmill on the West Branch in Factory Point.

* 1890 – At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.

* 1958 – Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D. C., to New York City after 68 years, the first U. S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.

* 1914 – In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed.

The relation between electric current, magnetic fields and physical forces was first noted by Hans Christian Ørsted who, in 1820, observed a compass needle was deflected from pointing North when a current flowed in an adjacent wire.

In the 1930s, musician and inventor Paul Tutmarc from Seattle, Washington, developed the first electric string bass in its modern form, a fretted instrument designed to be held and played horizontally.

In the 1950s, Leo Fender, with the help of his employee George Fullerton, developed the first mass-produced electric bass.

Following Fender's lead, Gibson released the first short scale violin-shaped electric bass with extendable end pin in 1953, allowing it to be played upright or horizontally.

( London's first deep-level tube railway, the City & South London Railway, had earlier also been built for cable haulage but had been converted to electric traction before opening in 1890.

* 1898 – Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat sets the first officially recognized land speed record of in a Jeantaud electric car.

In 1951, Leo Fender independently released his Precision Bass, the first commercially successful electric bass guitar.

The field first became an identifiable occupation in the late nineteenth century after commercialization of the electric telegraph and electrical power supply.

One of the first to discover and publish a link between man-made electric current and magnetism was Romagnosi, who in 1802 noticed that connecting a wire across a voltaic pile deflected a nearby compass needle.

For electric utilities, it is the first process in the delivery of electricity to consumers.

This association gave rise to the English words " electric " and " electricity ", which made their first appearance in print in Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica of 1646.

In 1663 the German physicist Otto von Guericke created the first electric generator, which produced static electricity by applying friction in the machine.

The energy efficiency of electric lighting has increased radically since the first demonstration of arc lamps and the incandescent light bulb of the 19th century.

The first one views the electric and magnetic fields as three-dimensional vector fields.

Michael Faraday, in his electrolysis experiments, was the first to note the discrete nature of electric charge.

The first electric synthesizer was invented in 1876 by Elisha Gray.

With numerous people experimenting with electrical instruments in the 1920s and early 1930s, there are many claimants to have been the first to invent an electric guitar.

The first electric guitars used in jazz were hollow archtop acoustic guitar bodies with electromagnetic transducers.

Early electric guitar manufacturers include: Rickenbacker ( first called Ro-Pat-In ) in 1932, Dobro in 1933, National, AudioVox and Volu-tone in 1934, Vega, Epiphone ( Electrophone and Electar ), and Gibson in 1935 and many others by 1936.

The first recordings using the electric guitar were by Hawaiian style players, in 1933.

While touring Scandinavia he first joined forces with guitarist and singer Peter Thorup, together forming the band New Church, who were one of the support bands at the Rolling Stones Free Concert in Hyde Park, London, on 5 July 1969.

Until Jefferson, very few artists had recorded solo voice and blues guitar, the first of which was vocalist Sara Martin and guitarist Sylvester Weaver.

The Mullanes formed in Melbourne in early 1985 with Finn, Hester, Seymour and guitarist Craig Hooper ( ex-The Reels ) and first performed on 11 June.

Elfman was apprehensive at first because of his lack of formal training, but with orchestration assistance from Oingo Boingo guitarist and arranger Steve Bartek, he achieved his goal of emulating the mood of such composers as Nino Rota and Bernard Herrmann.

It became known as the " Charlie Christian " pickup ( named for the great jazz guitarist who was among the first to perform with the ES-150 guitar ).

The first in this list is the American guitarist Jimi Hendrix introduced by Pete Townshend, guitarist for The Who, who was, in his turn, ranked at # 50 of the list.

The first traces of " raga rock " can be heard on songs such as " See My Friends " by The Kinks and The Yardbirds ' " Heart Full of Soul ", released the previous month, featured a sitar-like riff by guitarist Jeff Beck.

The Beatles song " Norwegian Wood ", which first appeared on the band's 1965 album Rubber Soul, was the first western pop song to actually incorporate the sitar ( played by lead guitarist George Harrison ).

It was also significant for being the first song cycle by an African-American pop musician ( group leader Arthur Lee was African American as was lead guitarist John Echols ).

On June 5, she recorded the single " Hey Joe "/" Piss Factory ", featuring Television guitarist Tom Verlaine ; released on her own Mer Records label, it heralded the scene's do it yourself ( DIY ) ethic and has often been cited as the first punk rock record.

In February 1976, the band received its first significant press coverage ; guitarist Steve Jones declared that the Sex Pistols were not so much into music as they were " chaos ".

Arguably the first influential classic electric blues slide guitarist is Elmore James, whose riff in the song " Dust My Broom " is copied from Robert Johnson and is held in particularly high regard.

Twain's first break finally came on February 8, 1987, when Bell staged a fundraiser for the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation at the Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto where Twain performed with Broadway star Bernadette Peters, jazz guitarist Don Ross, and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.

In an interview with The Skinny in July 2008, Tricky mentioned that it was the first time that he had decided to let someone co-produce an album with him, the person in question being Bernard Butler, ex-Suede guitarist.

Also at the first rehearsal were guitarist Geoff Bradford and vocalist Brian Knight, both of whom refused to join the band citing objections to playing the Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley songs preferred by Jagger and Richards.

; American Doll Posse World Tour: This was Amos's first tour with a full band since her 1999 Five and a Half Weeks Tour, accompanied by long-time band mates Jon Evans and Matt Chamberlain, with guitarist Dan Phelps rounding out Amos's new band.

His first " official " solo album was Earth, though it did actually feature a group of musicians including ex-Aphrodite's Child guitarist Silver Koulouris and also vocalist and songwriter Robert Fitoussi ( better known as F. R.

Established among the first wave of American punk, the original members are vocalist Exene Cervenka, vocalist / bassist John Doe, guitarist Billy Zoom, and drummer DJ Bonebrake.

In addition to Lennon and Ono, this first incarnation of the group consisted of guitarist Eric Clapton, bass player Klaus Voormann, and drummer Alan White.

The wolf drives a Harley Davidson motorcycle, the first little pig is an aspiring guitarist, the second is a cannabis smoking, dumpster diving evangelist and the third holds a Master of Architecture degree from Harvard University.

Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber ( 18 or 19 November 17864 / 5 June 1826 ) was a German composer, conductor, pianist, guitarist and critic, one of the first significant composers of the Romantic school.