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253 The Electric: The U.S.-French Race to Electrify the Skies Above the Olympics

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Steve LeVine @ The Information 1 place · 09/04/2023 07:31 EDT

The Electric: The U.S.-French Race to Electrify the Skies Above the Olympics

In 1876, millions of visitors to the World’s Fair in Philadelphia saw the first typewriter, the largest steam engine ever, and arguably the showstopper—the telephone, demonstrated by Alexander Graham Bell. Seventeen years later, visitors to the Chicago World’s Fair witnessed Nikola Tesla’s system of alternating electric current and the “City of Light” it created.Every four or so years for the last century and a half, nations have gathered in gigantic fairs and athletic spectacles, parading their best techno

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