Fw: 1880.....firsts for electricity! and the railway!

[Mark Kohut]

In rereading V.--that crucial Chapter 14, "V in love", we learn that this
V, a descent--a decadence?--- from Victoria Wren, partly inanimate, quite fetishized was
born in 1880.......what happened in 1880, one asks?

Below are a few firsts in 1880 that make V resonate more with themes and images in AtD.

First electric streetlight!


1880
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Events of 1880


February 2 - The first electric streetlight is installed in Wabash, Indiana.

May 13 - In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first
test of his electric railway.
June 29 - France annexes Tahiti.

August 30 - First complete railroad trip made from Houston to New
Orleans on the Texas and New Orleans Railroad.
September 5 - First successful test of an electric Tram in the world
takes place in St. Petersburg, Russia.

December 20 - Action at Bronkhorstspruit, the first major action of
the First Boer War.

Discovery of piezoelectricity by Pierre Curie and Jacques Curie.

Founding of Science by Thomas Edison.


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