reakdown."

It was not until 1885 that the first Edison station in Germany was
established; but the art was still very young, and the plant represented
pioneer lighting practice in the Empire. The station at Berlin comprised
five boilers, and six vertical steam-engines driving by belts twelve
Edison dynamos, each of about fifty-five horse-power capacity. A model
of this station is preserved in the Deutschen Museum at Munich. In the
bulletin of the Berlin Electricity Works for May, 1908, it is said with
regard to the events that led up to the creation of the system, as noted
already at the Rathenau celebration: "The year 1881 was a mile-stone
in the history of the Allgemeine Elektricitaets Gesellschaft. The
International Electrical Exposition at Paris was intended to place
before the eyes of the civilized world the achievements of the
century. Among the exhibits of that Exposition was the Edison system
of incandescent lighting. IT BECAME THE BASIS OF MODERN HEAVY
CURRENT TECHNICS." The last phrase is italicized as being a happy and
authoritative description, as well as a tribute.

This chapter would not be complete if it failed to include some
reference to a few of the earlier isolated plants of a historic
character. Note has already been made of the first Edison plants afloat
on the Jeannette and Columbia, and the first commercial plant in the New
York lithographic establishment. The first mill plant was placed in the
woollen factory of James Harrison at Newburgh, New York, about September
15, 1881. A year later, Mr. Harrison wrote with some pride: "I believe
my mill was the first lighted with your electric light, and therefore
may be called No. 1. Besides being job No. 1 it is a No. 1 job, and a
No. 1 light, being better and cheaper than gas and absolutely safe as
to fire." The first steam-yacht lighted by incandescent lamps was James
Gordon Bennett's Namouna, equipped early in 1882 with a plant for one
hundred and twenty lamps of eight candlepower, which remained in use
there many years afterward.

The first Edison plant in a hotel was started in October, 1881, at the
Blue Mountain House in the Adirondacks, and consisted of two "Z" dynamos
with a complement of eight and sixteen candle lamps. The hotel is
situated at an elevation of thirty-five hundred feet above the sea, and
was at that time forty miles from the railroad. The machinery was taken
up in pieces on the backs of mules from the foot of the mountain. The