Summary: This episode of the four-part documentary series highlights how electricity became a part of every American's life. After 1880, Thomas Edison launched the electric-lighting era, and power plants spread to cities. Few private utilities wired rural areas, citing its cost. But if private firms refused to do it, the government would. Arthur Morgan and David Lilienthal, leading the Tennessee Valley...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2002

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