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The Spark That Touched Off An Industrial Revolution

Record #:
15721
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Abstract:
A chance meeting between James B. Duke and Dr. W. Gill Wylie led to a meeting with William States Lee, a young engineer who knew a great deal about electricity. Together the three men planned a power firm that began with the name Southern Power Company in 1905 and later became the Duke Power Company. Today there are 20,000 miles of lines in the system which serves over a million people.
Source:
The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 22 Issue 11, Oct 1954, p14-15, il, map