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The first electric tram in Melbourne was built in 1889 by the Box Hill and Doncaster Tramway Company Limited — an enterprise formed by a group of land developers — and ran from Box Hill railway station along what is now Station Street and Tram Road to Doncaster, using equipment left over from the Centennial International Exhibition of 1888 at the Royal Exhibition Building.
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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.
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The first Hercule Poirot began with tram passengers and Belgian refugees.
In 1904, the tram system first got into service.
These included storms, the first tram, visit of the Lord Mayor of London, Hastings Marathon Race and the pier fire of 1917.
In 1872 the first horse railway was inaugurated, and from 1893 an electric tram was developed.
Recent infrastructural developments include the opening of the fast tram route ( Poznański Szybki Tramwaj, popularly Pestka ) in 1997, and Poznań's first motorway connection ( part of the A2 autostrada ) in 2003.
The first tram line in Seoul started operation between Seodaemun and Cheongnyangni in December 1898.
* 1860 – Britain's first tram service begins in Birkenhead, Merseyside.
The Wales | Welsh Swansea and Mumbles Railway ran the world's first passenger tram service
The very first tram was on the Swansea and Mumbles Railway in south Wales, UK ; it was horse-drawn at first, and later moved by steam and electric power.
In 1913, Tsaritsin's first tram line was built, and the city's first electric lights were installed in the city center.
The city walls were torn down between 1869 and 1889, efforts for a planned expansion of the city are evident as early as 1879, the first tram service started in 1888 and the city streets were illuminated with electric lamp posts in 1908.
The first electric tram line opened in 1889, but closed only a few years later in 1894.
Melbourne's first tram was a horse tram from Fairfield railway station to a real estate development in Thornbury, it opened on 20 December 1884, and was closed by 1890.
Melbourne ’ s first cable tram service on 11 November 1885
The first cable tram line opened on 11 November 1885, running from Bourke Street to Hawthorn Bridge, along Spencer Street, Flinders Street, Wellington Parade and Bridge Road, with the last line opening on 27 October 1891.
Construction began on its first tram line in 1909 with the first passenger service commencing in 30 May 1910.
The first tram line extension in over twenty years took place in 1978, along Burwood Highway.
The first commercial application of thermite was the welding of tram tracks in Essen, Germany, in 1899.
In Porto, a tram network, of three lines, began construction in 12 September 1895, the first in the Iberian Peninsula.
Trams have a long tradition in Brno, they first went to the streets in 1869, it was the first operation of horse-drawn tram in the current Czech Republic.
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