Pearl Street Station

Pearl Street Station was Thomas Edison's first commercial power plant in the United States.

Pearl Street Station consumed coal for fuel; it began with six 100 kW dynamos,[2] and it started generating electricity on September 4, 1882, serving an initial load of 400 lamps to 82 customers.

[4] The station was originally powered by custom-made Porter-Allen high-speed steam engines designed to provide 175 horsepower at 700 rpm,[5]: 529  but these proved to be unreliable with their sensitive governors.

[8][9] The station burned down in 1890, destroying all but one dynamo that is now kept in the Greenfield Village Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.

The models still exist and are on display at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.; at the Consolidated Edison Learning Center in Long Island City, New York; and at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.