WI Later Light Bulb

The 1893 Chicago World's Fair would have to close earlier. Unless they lit up the carbon arcs.

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The 1893 Chicago World's Fair would have to close earlier...

Yeah, or for that matter the mass electrification of the 1890's?

Standard Oil makes a lot more Money.

Conceivable; do they still get broken up if this happens, or would it be earlier if anything?

The Mantle Lamp gets invented earlier

FWIG, a commercially viable one was patented first in 1885, only a few years after our PoD, so I don't see this as much of an issue...
 
Edison had a commercially viable lighting package which included a bulb. Tesla ended up with the viable package which ended up using Edison's bulb. The only question is, who gets rich?
 
I'm going to guess, direct current is skipped in favor of alternating current. Electric cars aren't developed until much later. Pneumatic motors and steam cars come into wider use.

This is something you should research on your own. Very complex. Many things are inter-related. Like, no electric lights means no domestic power companies and much less infrastructure. How does all that influence refrigeration companies, urban trains/trams, and other stuff i can't think of right now? Is there a relationship between power companies and telephone and telegraph companies? What about electric cars? They had a brief golden age, until the electric starter erased their convenience advantage. As far as i know, direct current makes recharging batteries much easier. An intervening 20 year period of development (slow, but still) could almost totally bypass direct current generation. What else would electricity have been used for in this time? IMO, without light bulbs, domestic use won't take off, leaving electricity as an industrial thing. I like the image of an electric car recharging company with a network of recharging stations in major cities.
 
Great points by Freod -- which brings up another question:

How does this delay affect the global economy? At the time, the world was in the early phases of the "Long Depression". Does it go on longer TTL?

And how does this, in turn, affect geopolitics? I ask because the 1870's were the last time Britain was the world's foremost economy, and a longer depression may keep it that way...
 
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