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Sponsors:
Duke Energy
Progress Energy
Dominion NC Power
NC Association of Electric Cooperatives

 

Contact:
Grant Ellington
Extension Associate
NC State University
Biological & Agricultural
Engineering
Campus Box 7625
Raleigh, North Carolina
27695-7625
PHONE: (919)-515-6793
FAX: (919) 515-6772
e-mail: Grant Ellington grant_ellington@ncsu.edu

teaching electricity in 1937 through extension electrification programs. Photo shows a car pulled trailer used as a mobile unit traveling to rural areas to demonstrate the various used for home and farm electricity.
The 4-H Electric Program is steeped in the states extension history.
It dates back to the days when extension electrification demonstration programs were esential to the success and development of rural america and its farms. The demonstration trailershown above was widely used in 1937 to demonstrate how electricity could be use in the home and on the farm.