Home / News / History History Happenings: When electricity came to Iowa Inventions changed how people lived, traveled, communicated By Joe Coffey, - The History Center Nov. 23, 2021 6:00 am ...

Electricity has become such a mainstay of everyday life that the novelty of this technology when it was in its infancy at the turn of the 19th century almost has been forgotten. But when ...

Perhaps the person most responsible for selling electricity in its early days to Cedar Rapidians was Louise Hathaway.