And it was built in order to help showcase the fact that Buffalo was basically the epicenter of everything at the time when it came to power, because we were Buffalo was the first city in the world to be electrified. And so we had electric lights. People were fascinated by this. What do you mean, electric lights? How can that be? And people came from all over to see this in the entire exhibition. (01:31–01:46)
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