When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.
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If it weren't for electricity, we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb.
Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?
Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.
Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
Realizing this, I knew that the actual space of a room could be broken down and played with by planting illusions of real light (electric light) at crucial junctures in the room's composition.
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