After the Franco-Prussian War ended, the situation in Europe entered a period of calm as well.
Of course, the reason for that calm was that the British Empire, the empire that stirred the shit, was too preoccupied with Ireland's self-government movement to concern itself with anything else.
Britain's official name was the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The Kingdom of Great Britain itself consisted of England and Scotland.
This meant that Britain faced problems similar to Spain's. Aside from the main ethnic group, the English, the Scots and Irish did not seem particularly accepting of the government's rule.
However, the British Empire at this time was the undisputed world hegemon and the strongest naval power. Riding on the glory of the Victorian Era, it temporarily suppressed the Irish and Scottish desire for independence.
While people in Britain had problems within their own ranks, people in France licked the wounds left by war, and the Germans received vast sums of money to begin developing industry, the golden age of development for Europe's other countries arrived.
More than two months passed quickly, and the main building of the Electricity Laboratory that Gram had been longing for was finally completed.
At Gram's urging, Royal Electricity Research successfully moved into the new main laboratory building and officially began research into generators.
When people in later generations mentioned direct current and alternating current, the first things they would think of were Edison's and Tesla's War of Currents.
But in truth, both direct current and alternating current had emerged very early. It was merely because the initial exploratory stage consumed too much time and failed to attract the attention of national governments that electricity could not be applied on a large scale until the end of the 19th century.
Why say that?
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