In the cholera ward in old San Francisco, there were motorized ceiling fans hung, actively turning. Considering they were using oil lamps, I tend to doubt electric fans.
Ceiling Fans in Time's Arrow
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Oil fans.
Electric ceiling fans existed as early as 1882, and rotary ceiling fans powered by other means between ten and twenty years earlier.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceiling_fans#History
In the 1893 setting of "Time's Arrow", the lamps seen would much more likely have been kerosene (table-top lamps) or natural gas (wall fixtures) than oil, which had largely been phased out by that time.
But if it was a cholera ward, then its likely they may not have upgraded the old gas/oil lights to electric. Keep in mind in that era gas lines and gaslights in homes and businesses and the like were as common as Romex electrical wiring are now. Hell here in downtown Milwaukee there's a hotel that still has their original gas lights burning outside. So its likely they could have had fans run by electricity but still used gas lights. A fan is far easier to wire in than ripping out all the old gas lines and replacing it with wire and rudimentary electric lamps
Yeah, never mind how sociable Samuel Clemens was with strangers (even ones he suspected), or that he traveled threw time, saw aliens, intereacted with people from the future -- one a andriod -- and then managed to keep all that hush-hush. It's the ceiling fans that were the problem. 
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Yeah, never mind how sociable Enstein was, or that he traveled threw time, saw aliens, intereacted with people from the future -- one a andriod -- and then managed to keep all that hush-hush. It's the ceiling fans that were the problem.
Einstein? Er, are you talking about Samuel Clemens? Because those two guys lived a half-century or so apart.
As for the TAH, I just assumed the fans were running off "oil-power" or something along those lines.
Yeah, never mind how sociable Enstein was, or that he traveled threw time, saw aliens, intereacted with people from the future -- one a andriod -- and then managed to keep all that hush-hush. It's the ceiling fans that were the problem.
Einstein? Er, are you talking about Samuel Clemens? Because those two guys lived a half-century or so apart.
As for the TAH, I just assumed the fans were running off "oil-power" or something along those lines.
Uh. No. They were alive at the same time for about 35 years. Granted Clemens was old enough to be Einstein's grandfather.
Yeah, never mind how sociable Enstein was, or that he traveled threw time, saw aliens, intereacted with people from the future -- one a andriod -- and then managed to keep all that hush-hush. It's the ceiling fans that were the problem.
Einstein? Er, are you talking about Samuel Clemens? Because those two guys lived a half-century or so apart.
As for the TAH, I just assumed the fans were running off "oil-power" or something along those lines.
Uh. No. They were alive at the same time for about 35 years. Granted Clemens was old enough to be Einstein's grandfather.
Also by time that Einstein had left Germany I think that most of America would have been electric power in hospitals
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Yeah, never mind how sociable Enstein was, or that he traveled threw time, saw aliens, intereacted with people from the future -- one a andriod -- and then managed to keep all that hush-hush. It's the ceiling fans that were the problem.
Einstein? Er, are you talking about Samuel Clemens? Because those two guys lived a half-century or so apart.
As for the TAH, I just assumed the fans were running off "oil-power" or something along those lines.
Uh. No. They were alive at the same time for about 35 years. Granted Clemens was old enough to be Einstein's grandfather.
Nevertheless in the episode it was Clemens, not Einstein.
Yes, I got that. I'm saying that regardless of that error, the character in the episode was Clemens and not Einstein as the first poster in this spin-off topic said.
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