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 ...

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.

which began with the Holborn Viaduct power station in London in 1882, the first of its type in the world. Coal went on to play a major role in the national energy supply throughout the 20th ...

The Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station ... is just beginning," Shanks said. The first coal plant in Britain went online in 1882, when Thomas Edison's Holborn Viaduct coal plant started generating ...

The Ratcliffe-on-Soar plant was the last surviving coal-burning power station in ... after the world’s first coal-burning power plant began producing electricity at the Holborn Viaduct in ...