1. The earliest use of electric energy in China was in the fifth year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty (1878). At that time, the British colonialists in Shanghai specially brought a small engine generator to welcome American President Grant to pass through Shanghai, and it was used on the Bund in Shanghai from August 17 to June 18 in the fifth year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty (1879).

2. The earliest power plant in China was 1882, and the Shanghai Electro-Optical Company was established by the British in the Shanghai Concession.

The history of electricity

1, the ancients discovered its existence through' lightning'.

2. In ancient China, the ancients believed that the phenomenon of electricity was caused by the excitation of Yin and Yang.

3. As for the record of static electricity, amber or tortoise shell can attract light and small objects when rubbed, and it also describes the phenomenon that silk friction generates electricity.

4. In A.D. 1600, British doctor Gilbert did experiments for many years and found many phenomena such as "electricity" and "electric attraction", and he was the first to use such special terms as "electricity" and "electric attraction", so many people called him the father of electrical research.

5. 1752 Franklin, a great American electrician, flew a kite, which further revealed the essence of electricity and put forward the word current.

6. 182 1 year, the Englishman Faraday made an important electrical invention.

7. 1866 Siemens, Germany manufactured the world's first industrial generator.