is that the original or just an imitation? well looks like the original

ya. it is...

ware where the pics taken?

Canada Science and Technology Museum

This is, IIRC, what Edison called 'long-legged Marys', and produced around 120 volts DC. Edison believed in a distribution system of DC only. It is of course impractical for anything more than lighting one building. It was Tesla's invention of the AC transformer (& NO I am NOT talking about shape-shifting scrap metal robots) that made the modern systems of power distribution possible.

The rivalry between Edison and Nikolai Tesla has been a great story for many years... It would make a pretty good movie.
The other device in the background looks to me to be a ac-dc convertor or some such, maybe an exciter-generator. It also has all the look of one produced up to maybe 1935.

Sorry for the long comment, but I do love this kinda stuff. Thanks for the pic.

anytime. I love that kind of info. Very good. Thanks for the comment...

*giggles* are you SURE Edison REALY invented it? poke around enough and im sure youll find a design looking exactly like it made before his ^^ (suspicion comes from school srry ^^)

ok....