Power plants and electricity

Electric street lighting, arc lamps, neon lights,... In 1932, the German capital Berlin was the best-lighted city on earth, according to Mildred Adams, correspondent at The New York Times.

During the twentieth century, the Tejo thermoelectric power plant was essential for developing the Portuguese capital, Lisbon. It supplied electricity to the electric tram, street lighting and factories in and around Lisbon.

In the Herzberge landscape park, a green oasis in Berlin's Lichtenberg district, the Queen Elisabeth evangelical hospital was built at the end of the nineteenth century and was heated from a separate boiler room.

In Peenemünde, Germany, the Nazi rocket testing center, a coal-fired power plant was established in 1939 to enable the energy-intensive production of liquid oxygen - the fuel for the V2 rocket.