History of Muscatine County Iowa 1911

Source: History of Muscatine County Iowa, Volume I, 1911, page 83
FIRST ELECTRIC LIGHT ON THE MISSISSIPPI.

The Journal of June 23, 1881, is authority for the following statement: The "rafter," B. Hershey, carried the first electric searchlight used by a steamboat of any kind on the Mississippi. The steamer Gem City made its appearance on the day above mentioned at Muscatine, with the first electric searchlight used on an upper river packet.

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