When did rural homes get electricity?

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asked Aug 21, 2020 in Other-Home/Garden by iangirl345 (300 points)
When did rural homes get electricity?

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answered Aug 22, 2020 by Shawn (105,070 points)
Most rural homes did not get electricity to them until around the year 1940 to 1947.

However in city or town homes the electricity was installed and used around the year 1930 which is when most people in town began using electric appliances such as electric stoves, electric coffee makers, electric refrigerators etc.

But the people in rural places took longer and had to wait longer for the electric poles to be installed and the electric wires and electric transformers to be installed before they got the electricity.

If you lived in town or in a city you got electricity to your home or business around 1930.

Electricity as we know it and use it today was invented around the year 1821 when Michael Faraday invented the first electric motor.

An electric motor works by using a magnetic field and the electricity and magnet make the motor spin when electricity is applied to it.

The first reliable, long-lasting electric light bulb was invented in the year 1879 by Thomas Edison however there was another inventor of the light bulb years before that.

Electricity then saw almost widespread use by most people after the 1880s.

Not everyone could afford to get hooked up to the electrical grid or afford the cost of the electricity that was being supplied to them.

Before Alternating Current people used direct current which was less reliable and was not as easily movable from the power plant to the homes and businesses.

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