Willimantic Linen Co. Installs Incandescent Lights

Title

Willimantic Linen Co. Installs Incandescent Lights

Description

The Willimantic Linen Company eliminates its use of arc lights in order to use Thomas Edison’s incandescent lights.

Source

Thomas R. Beardsley, Willimantic Industry and Community: The Rise and Decline of a Connecticut Textile City (Willimantic, CT: Windham Textile and History Museum, 1993), 58.

Date

1882

Contributor

freebairn_richard

Collection

Digital Windham

Citation

“Willimantic Linen Co. Installs Incandescent Lights,” History Digitized, accessed October 24, 2024, https://easternct-digitalhistory.com/items/show/795.