Day: February 23, 2020

Edison & Tesla: America Becomes Electrified

The Chicago World’s Fair in 1893. In June 1752, Benjamin Franklin attached a metal...

“We owe it, therefore, to candor, and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and those powers [European powers], to declare, that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere, as dangerous to our peace and safety.” – President James Monroe from his “Monroe Doctrine” declaring further colonization by European powers in the Western Hemisphere a threat to the safety of the United States (1823)