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=== Bliss School of Electricity ===
The '''Bliss School of Electricity''' was a private, for-profit institution which claimed to be the oldest school teaching electricity in the world.<ref>"[https://www.newspapers.com/image/330864729/ The Bliss Electrical School]". ''Washington Evening Star''. August 5, 1908. p. 13.</ref> Established in 1893 and named after its founder Louis D. Bliss, its first class was held on October 15, 1893, in a single room on the third floor of the Warder Building at Ninth and F streets NW in Washington, D.C.<ref>"[https://www.newspapers.com/image/466385317/ The Bliss School of Electricity]". ''Washington Evening Star''. August 21, 1894. p. 5.</ref><ref>"[https://www.loc.gov/item/dc0015/ Warder Building, 527 Ninth Street Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC]". ''Library of Congress''.</ref> It started as a night class with 26 students, including Thomas E. Robertson, who would later go on to be the United States Commissioner of Patents. The capital investment in the school was $400, representing an advance payment of $20 each from 20 men. During the eight-month session of 1894–1895, about 75 men enrolled and paid $50 of tuition each.<ref>"[https://www.newspapers.com/image/84721931/ One Man Can Fire Many Guns]". ''The Washington Post''. May 9, 1895. p. 4.</ref><ref>"[https://www.newspapers.com/image/62285586/ Bliss School of Electricity, Washington, D.C.]" ''Durham Globe'' (Durham, North Carolina). August 22, 1894. p. 2.</ref> In 1895, [[Charles Francis Jenkins]], of motion picture and television fame, enrolled as a student.<ref>{{cite speech |title= Bliss Electrical School Alumni Address |first=Louis |last=Bliss event=Bliss Alumni Address |location=Washington, D.C. |date=1955 |url= https://ethw.org/Archives:Bliss_Electrical_School_Alumni_Address |access-date= June 25, 2021}}</ref> The school later moved to 219 G Street NW in Washington, D.C.<ref>"[https://www.newspapers.com/image/48227084/ Bliss School Buys Hotel: Will Establish New Home at Takoma Park]". ''July 12, 1908. p. 27.</ref>

W. B. Connelly, a 1904 graduate of Bliss, worked for the [[General Electric|General Electric Company]] at Schenectady, N.Y., where he led the inspection of some two miles of switchboards for the [[Panama Canal]]. Before going to General Electric, Connelly taught at Bliss; his student Skipwith B. Cole would later become dean of the school's faculty.