In 1891, William Morrison, who was an American inventor, built the first ever successful car driven by electricity.
One of the most famous experiments done by Benjamin Franklin was the kite experiment. He attached a long wire to a kite made of silk. He used it to draw electricity from storm clouds and charge a Leyden Jar. Through his experiments, he proved that storm clouds carried electricity and lightning was nothing but a heavily charged spark of electricity. This was a path breaking discovery of his times because in those days thunderstorms and lightning strikes cause widespread damage to wooden structures.
Electricity was discovered around 1600 AD by an English scientist known as William Gilbert. William Gilbert was also the one who coined the word electricity.
We took advantage of the beautiful weather this morning to have an employee meeting while being able to maintain our social distance.
The nation’s first commercial electrical plant began operation in Appleton, WI in 1882. Banker and a paper company executive Henry J. Rogers, who moved to Wisconsin in 1873, wanted to introduce electric power to his factory and home. With hardware supplied by the Edison Company, his plant began transmitting power to local paper mills, the water company and some of the cities wealthiest families in the summer of 1882.
Most of the inventions in electricity we use today, such as fuses, meters, switches and more, all came from Thomas Edison. He came up with over 2000 inventions.
Baraboo Area Chamber of Commerce
October 23 at 6:25 PM ·
Learn how you and the Chamber can help each other by visiting “Mr. Hornby’s Neighborhood.”
On his 59th birthday, in 1906, Nikola Tesla demonstrated a 200 horsepower (150 kilowatts) 16,000 rpm bladeless turbine. During 1910-1911, at the Waterside Power Station in New York, several of his bladeless turbine engines were tested at 100-5,000 hp. Tesla worked with several companies including from 1919 to 1922 in Milwaukee, for Allis-Chalmers. He spent most of his time trying to perfect the Tesla turbine with Hans Dahlstrand, the head engineer at the company, but engineering difficulties meant it was never made into a practical device. Tesla did license the idea to a precision instrument company and it found use in the form of luxury car speedometers and other instruments.
Sir Joseph Wilson Swan (1828 - 1914) was an English physicist, chemist and inventor. Early experiments at his home, Underhill, Low Fell, Gateshead, led to him inventing the first electric light bulb. Underhill was the first house in the world to be wired for domestic electric lighting.
The details elsewhere in the book state that it has a dull gray enamel finish relieved by a blue border. The wringer is aluminum. The model with a tinned copper tank is available for $145 east of the Rockies and $155 west of the Rockies. The shipping weight is 270 pounds.
(From the 1924 Western Electric Electrical Supply Year Book)
Hill’s Wiring also offers bucket truck services! With less daylight hours, be sure your security lighting is working. If not, we can help!
Taken from the Western Electric Electrical Supply Year Book 1924 when the “ideal dwelling is a place from which hard work has been excluded.” I’m sure that our grandmothers and great grandmothers thought this was a big improvement but it is still hard work compared to our modern appliances.
We wish everyone a Safe and Happy Thanksgiving Day!
Our office will be closed on Thursday, November 26th and Friday, November 27th in observance of the holiday.
A light weight(15 lb.) easy running sweeper with gently revolving motor-driven brush that whisks up threads and lint and loosens imbedded dirt without injury to the finest rugs.
$57.50 East of the Rockies, $60.00 West of the Rockies.
(From the Western Electric Electrical Supply Year Book 1924)
David SaLoutos
November 28 at 2:09 PM ·
Thank you to Jerry Exterovich for getting the wreath and Jack Vogel for hanging it 35 feet up! It’s a beauty!
A combination of an up-to-date kitchen table and an efficient dishwasher. Washes, rinses and dries dishes in fifteen minutes. Will not break or chip the most fragile China. It uses 225 watts or about 2 1/2 cents worth of electricity per hour.
( From the Western Electric Electrical Supply Year Book of 1924)
An electrically driven gas heated ironer small enough to fit into the majority of kitchens or laundries and yet large enough to do all the work that a larger ironer can do-at the small cost of 2 1/2 cents an hour.
From the Western Electric Electrical Supply Year Book 1924
White enamel door panel with compensating heat indicator and adjustable door lining, removable oven linings, white splashers at back and side of cooking top and nickel trimmings are standard equipment on this model. $214.00.
From the Western Electric Electrical Supply Year Book 1924
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, “White Christmas” by Bing Crosby is not only the best-selling Christmas/holiday single in the United States, but also the best-selling single of all time, with estimated sales in excess of 50 million copies worldwide.
All of us at Hill’s Wiring would like wish our customers, friends and families a Very Merry Christmas!
Found this vintage GE ammeter in the back of the tool crib. It appears to be circa 1940’s. Should we guess it was a used by Doug Hill? 
Switches through the years!
Hill’s Wiring sends the very best wishes to everyone for this special holiday!
Another home with Adequate Wiring. Doug tells us this is one of the homes wired by his grandfather, Max F. Hill, and his employees in the late 40’s or early 50’s. This was when the company was called Hill’s Electric working in partnership with Wisconsin Power & Light.
Throwback Thursday!
