The first coal-fired power station in the world, the Holborn Viaduct power station, was built in 1882 in London by the inventor Thomas Edison - bringing light to the streets of the capital.

The closure marks the end of Britain’s 142-year history of coal power use which began when the world’s first coal-fired power station, the Holborn Viaduct power station, began generating ...

A description of the World’s first power station opened in 1882 at Holborn Viaduct is given. This clip is from the series The Genius of Invention. This clip would be ideally suited to showing ...