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A SHOCK TO THE SYSTEM: WORLD'S FIRST ELECTRIC TRAM

Today in Berlin: May16, 1881

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On May 16, 1881 world’s first electric tram started operating between Bahnhof Lichterfelde (a railway station on the Berlin-Anhalt Railway Line, now in Berlin-Lichterfelde) and the Königlich-Preußisc…

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