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English: At the Paris Exposition of 1878, electric arc lighting had been installed along the Avenue de l'Opera and the Place de l'Opera, using electric Yablochkov arc lamps, powered by Zénobe Gramme alternating current dynamos[1][2][3].
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Source Emile Alglave; J. Boulard, Thomas O'Conor Sloane, Charles Marshall Lungren (1884) The Electric Light: Its History, Production, and Applications, D. Appleton and company, p. page=26 Retrieved on 9 January 2009.
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  1. ↑ David Oakes Woodbury (1949) A Measure for Greatness: A Short Biography of Edward Weston, McGraw-Hill, p. 83 Retrieved on 4 January 2009.
  2. ↑ John Patrick Barrett (1894) Electricity at the Columbian Exposition, R. R. Donnelley & sons company, p. 1 Retrieved on 4 January 2009.
  3. ↑ Berly (1880-3-24). "Notes on the Jablochkoff System of Electric Lighting". Journal of the Society of Telegraph Engineers IX: 143. Retrieved on 2009-01-07.

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