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The world's largest air-insulated Van de Graaff generator demonstrates the power of electricity.
Boston, Massachusetts

World's Largest Air-Insulated Van de Graaff Generator

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.
Staufen geothermal cracks 2016 (some repairs made between 2013-2016)
Staufen im Breisgau, Germany

The Cracking Buildings of Staufen

A geothermal energy project gone wrong is fracturing the city's picturesque architecture.
Stairs to the theater
Dubuque, Iowa

Union Park

The remains of a bustling turn-of-the-century park built to showcase the wonders of electricity.
Copper wire covered with asphaltum that was part of the first underground electrical system and used to illuminate Edison's home.
objects of intrigue

For Sale: A Wire From Thomas Edison's 1880 City Lighting Demo

The insulated copper wire was used to illuminate the inventor's New Jersey home.
Vittoria Traverso November 21, 2017
Emerald Valley
Piti, Guam

Emerald Valley

A beautiful waterway tucked in the corner of a power plant.
The sign is blocked by overgrown weeds.
Arlington, Virginia

Pentagon Cable Crossing Sign

Please don’t anchor your boat onto the Department of Defense’s underwater data cables.
"Energy Flux," data source: National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, September 2000.
maps

For as Much as We Know About the World, There Are Still Dark Spots on the Map

A new atlas aims to surprise.
Sarah Laskow October 16, 2017
The detailed image of the storm used by scientists, from the book <em>Seikai</em>.
science

Japanese Scientists Turn Literary Detectives to Study a 1770 Magnetic Storm

They think it might have been the largest ever seen.
Natasha Frost October 4, 2017
Street lights on display.
Los Angeles, California

Historic Street Lighting Museum

The illuminating collection of L.A. street lights is run by the city and only opens one day per month.
This one is innocent.
food

The Squirrel Who Ruined 21,000 Gallons of Milk

Chewing on electrical equipment: always a bad idea.
Erik Shilling August 11, 2017
Lamps in the museum's collection
Donalda, Alberta

Donalda Lamp Museum

The museum is home to four times as many lamps as there are people in town.
The Georgetown Steam Plant.
Seattle, Washington

Georgetown Steam Plant

A frozen relic of Seattle's hydroelectric boom is now a teaching facility for future engineers.
The memorial at Foilhommerum Cliff.
Kerry, Ireland

Telegraph Field Valentia Island

This beautiful site is where the first transatlantic telegraph was sent from.
Faraday's lab.
London, England

Michael Faraday's Laboratory

The lab where the scientist made his groundbreaking discoveries is preserved on the basement floor of the Faraday Museum.
Overland Park, Kansas

1950s All-Electric House

Step back in time at this 1950s display home, built to showcase once cutting-edge electric amenities.
Personal gadgets for sale in Akihabara around 2008.
Tokyo, Japan

Akihabara Electric Town

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.
Alternate view of the pyramidion
Washington, D.C.

Washington Monument Lightning Rod

The monument's pointy aluminum tip has been melted down by repeated lightning strikes.
A Brooklyn Rapid Transit electric streetcar in 1908.
Brooklyn, New York

Canarsie Trolley Graveyard

Residents of this Brooklyn neighborhood may be unaware their houses sit atop a buried trolley graveyard.