In an effort to honour coronation of the first Montenegrin King Nikola I Petrovic, the first power-station was built in Cetinje in less than two months. It was on 19 August 1910 year, which was less than three decades after the first such power-station in the world was built in New York by the famous scientist Thomas Edison, that electric lighting was brought to the Palace of the King Nikola, twelve foreign Embassies and to the Government House and bit later even to some wealthy households in Cetinje. The primary function of the power-station was only to serve for lighting while later on heating cells were installed in the Palace of King Nikola I. Lightening operated, in addition to these facilities, in Njegoseva and Bajova Streets as well. In the ground floor of the power-station which was at the beginning of the second decade of the XX century built by the Emanuel Kraus, the president of the Montenegrin Electricity Company, the Technical Museum has been located comprising exhibits related to the development of Electric Power Industry in Montenegro. Post of Montenegro, on the occasion of 100 years of the first power-station, publishes appropriate edition of stamps that contains one stamp and an Envelope on the first day. Author of the preliminary design is Jelena Sekulic, a graphic designer from Podgorica.
