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The Father of Lionel Trains was Joshua Lionel Cowen (originally Cohen), who was born in Manhattan on August 25, 1877. When Joshua was just 5 years old, Thomas Edison formed the Edison Electric Illuminating Company of New York, to bring his Incandescent Light Bulb to parts of Manhattan. The Electrical Age had begun. In 1900, as the electric frontier dawned, 23 year old Joshua Lionel Cowen formed the Lionel Manufacturing Company at 24 Murray St in Manhattan in order to make “electric novelties.”
Special thanks to the Sindoni Family for sharing their family tradition.
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The Edison 1,500 light 110 volt steam dynamo called the "Jumbo", installed in 1882 at Holborn Viaduct station and Pearl Street Station, New York City, the first Edison X Public Electric Power Stations. Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Thomas Alva Edison. Photograph. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark
The Edison Electric Illuminating Company sign photo: By Autopilot - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Kids looking in store window: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, [reproduction number, e.g., LC-B2-1234]
Cortlandt Street New York City: Detroit Publishing Company photograph collection (Library of Congress)
The ceremony for the driving of the golden spike at Promontory Summit, Utah on May 10, 1869; completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad.By Andrew J. Russell - Cropped, edited and restored from original file, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
The Polar Express, ©2004 Warner Brothers Entertainment, Inc.
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