Just a couple of fun facts about the year 1893.
In the year 1893, Edna Parker was born in the state of Indiana. Edna lived to be 115 years old. Edna has just recently passed away. May God, rest her soul.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-in-oldestpersondies,0,5431712.story
Also in the year 1893, Nikola Tesla and George Westinghouse brought alternating current or AC electricity and the motors and transformers powered by it, to the world.
http://www.buffaloah.com/h/tesla/tesla.html
Some more fun facts;
In just a little more than 100 years, the human race has gone from being able to live on Earth without electricity, to not being able to live without it. The same is basically true of the automobile by a decade or so. Major breakthroughs in medicines and health care. Also, about 100 years ago marks a time when a change in human population on Earth began. It took thousands of years for world wide human population to reach an estimated 2 billion people, but in only the last 100 years, we have seen and increase of 4.5 billion more people.
Still reading? Here's another.
Prior to the development of a livestock industry, vast areas of Australia were once without drinking water for a majority of the time. Scientists believe kangaroo numbers went through cycles; during the wetter years that usually followed an El Ni-o event, roo numbers increased dramatically. When the El Ni-o returned, they quickly died of thirst with just a few survivors at isolated billabongs. Today, thanks to bores and dams, most areas of Australia are less than 8 km from water - an easy hop for a kangaroo. Where there is drinking water, kangaroos thrive until they starve. Death through starvation is a slow and painful affair.
It would seem that, for humans, electricity can do more than just power a light bulb.
