Invisible but essential, electricity is now an integral part of our day-to-day lives. We are so dependent on it that it feels unimaginable to live without it.

Long seen as an object of scientific curiosity, at the end of the 19^th century, electricity became both the symbol and one of the driving forces of the second industrial revolution: a new source of energy to replace steam, power factories, light towns and cities, speed up transport and revolutionise communication. Visionary Belgian pioneers and companies like ACEC played a vital role in this wonderful adventure…