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325:questions:week_6_questions_comments-325_19 [2019/10/03 13:06] – [Chapter 7, Rural Lines -- 287-291, 304-307, 314-317, 322-338] 76.78.225.32325:questions:week_6_questions_comments-325_19 [2019/11/21 16:18] (current) – 192.65.245.79
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 This chapter focused on the early stages of electric lights. I found it interesting, being a theater person myself, that theaters were one of the first places to use electric light. In the text, it states that theaters used arc light because they found that you could make cool effects like a sunrise or sunset with the lights. The chapter also discusses the electric lights effect on the World's fair. **In a sense, the electric light brought people from different places and different walks of life together to one place**. -- Erin Madden This chapter focused on the early stages of electric lights. I found it interesting, being a theater person myself, that theaters were one of the first places to use electric light. In the text, it states that theaters used arc light because they found that you could make cool effects like a sunrise or sunset with the lights. The chapter also discusses the electric lights effect on the World's fair. **In a sense, the electric light brought people from different places and different walks of life together to one place**. -- Erin Madden
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 +This was a very interesting chapter for me becuase I knew that lights would be used for advertising, but the way that they displayed lights was very cool. I did not know about the extent to which these light displays went to demonstrate the beauty that electricity would provide. This was not just in the United States but it was also around the world. I wish I was alive to see one of these massive spectacles at one of these amazing displays.-Kendell Jenkins
  
 In the chapter “The Great White Way” in Nye’s “Electrifying America” he explains the evolution of electric lighting in the early decades of its presence in American life. From being a spectacle that attracts tourists to fairs and expositions to advertisements and attractions constantly lit in American urban cities. Through this reading the reader grasps all that went into these inventions and developments that are so often overlooked. Typically when learning about electric lighting we are just told that Edison invented the light bulb and sometimes told about the electric system but this exposes readers to the evolution that brings us to today's lighting and electrical systems. Nye also writes about the impact of these developments and how **for cities having a new and bright light display it was a sign of progress and success. Nye also notes the competition between advertisers and the architects of these displays,** these innovations brought about a new market and demanded progress with it. -Emma Monaghan In the chapter “The Great White Way” in Nye’s “Electrifying America” he explains the evolution of electric lighting in the early decades of its presence in American life. From being a spectacle that attracts tourists to fairs and expositions to advertisements and attractions constantly lit in American urban cities. Through this reading the reader grasps all that went into these inventions and developments that are so often overlooked. Typically when learning about electric lighting we are just told that Edison invented the light bulb and sometimes told about the electric system but this exposes readers to the evolution that brings us to today's lighting and electrical systems. Nye also writes about the impact of these developments and how **for cities having a new and bright light display it was a sign of progress and success. Nye also notes the competition between advertisers and the architects of these displays,** these innovations brought about a new market and demanded progress with it. -Emma Monaghan
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 The all-inclusiveness of Teddy Roosevelt's thoughts on electricity and rural society's integration was very progressive for the time and very in line with how he acted as president. -Cameron Wills The all-inclusiveness of Teddy Roosevelt's thoughts on electricity and rural society's integration was very progressive for the time and very in line with how he acted as president. -Cameron Wills
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 +Theodore Roosevelt sought to increase access of electricity to rural/farm areas. The push to provide those American’s with what we now take for granted, allowed farmers to progress at the speed of lightning (pun intended). - Elizabeth Davis 
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