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.

It was first believed the bomb was rigged to the car's starter.

The season was highlighted by starter Zack Greinke, who did not allow an earned run in the first 24 innings of the season, went on to finish the year with a Major League-leading 2. 16 earned run average, and won the American League Cy Young award.

The 1904 race was won by Elwood, the first Derby starter and winner owned by a woman, Laska Durnell.

The first is a circumstance in which a team is in the process of determining which quarterback will eventually be the starter, and may choose to use each quarterback for part of the game in order to compare the performances.

He was also the first Hispanic to win a World Series as a starter ( 1960 ), receive an MVP Award ( 1966 ), and receive a World Series MVP Award ( 1971 ).

Looking back at his regular season, Clemente's. 314 batting average, 16 home runs, aggressive base-running and off-the-charts defense had earned him his first All-Star Game appearance ; though not a starter, he made the most of his opportunity, barely missing a home run in his one at-bat.

Highlights included Johnson earning his 300th career victory, becoming the twenty-fourth pitcher in Major League history to do so, as well as struggling starter Jonathan Sánchez tossing a no-hitter against the San Diego Padres on July 10, the first Giants no-hitter since 1976.

Gonzalez would take over the everyday duties at first base, batting. 304 with a club-leading 24 home runs and 82 RBI in his first year as a full-time starter.

Gilliam had started for the first four games of the season, but Noll eventually made Bradshaw the starter.

) The first came off starter Burt Hooton, and was a line drive shot into the lower right field seats at Yankee Stadium.

In his first season with the Angels, Ryan, given a chance to pitch regularly as a starter for the first time in his career, had a league-leading 329 strikeouts — nearly a third more than the AL runner-up, and to that point, the fourth-highest total of the 20th century.

First, when the power is first switched on, the igniter / starter ( which is wired in parallel across the lamp ) sets up a small current through the ballast and starter.

O ' Neal was the first rookie to be voted an All-Star starter since Michael Jordan in 1985.

Hill was chosen an All-Star starter by NBA fans for the 2005 All-Star Game, and Dwight Howard and Jameer Nelson were named to the All-Rookie first and second teams, respectively.

The team won 45 games despite being down a starter in Washington and not having Abdul-Jabbar for nearly two months, but lost in the first round of the playoffs to Seattle.

Yorkshire pudding normally accompanies beef ( although traditionally served in Yorkshire, as a starter, from the days when meat was scarce so was served first as a " filler " ), sage and onion stuffing pork, and usually parsley stuffing chicken ; gravy is now often served as an accompaniment to the main course.

John Brodie was the first NFL shotgun quarterback, beating out former starter Y.

Wells was a journeyman starter for the first eight seasons of his career.

She went on to be a four-year starter for Purdue University from 2003 to 2007, and was the first Hornet graduate to play in an American professional sports major league ( for the WNBA's Seattle Storm in the 2007 season ).

In 1911, Charles F. Kettering, with Henry M. Leland, of Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company ( DELCO ) invented and filed for the first electric starter in America.

Rolls Royce had introduced a conceptually similar starter in 1946, but Chrysler's was the first volume-production unit.