Lithograph of the “Department of Electricity”, which was powered at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago using Westinghouse and Tesla’s alternating current technology.
Featured on PDR in the essay Colonizing the Cosmos: Astor’s Electrical Future
During America’s Gilded Age, the future seemed to pulse with electrical possibility. Iwan Rhys Morus follows the interplanetary safari that is John Jacob Astor’s _A Journey in Other Worlds_, a high-voltage scientific romance in which visions of imperialism haunt a supposedly “perfect” future.
Also appearing in the essay…
Department of Electricity
Date
1893
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