Electricity Interests English Women
Miss HASLETT, of the Women’s Blectrical Emgineering Society, speaking in London last October, said that a very large number of women are now interested in electrical problems. At first men "pooh-poohed" the idea, but now one man complained that now he was no longer looked up to as the man of the house, for when anything went wrong, his wife said, "Oh, don’t bother, George, I can put that right." Continuing, the speaker said, an old lady living in a village, wrote to an electrical engineer, saying, "When next you are in this village, will you please call upon me with your vacuum cleaner, as I should like my house electrically cleaned, but as we have no electricity in the village, please bring some with you." The development of electricity has been so quiet that few people realise that to-day half of England’s factories, two-thirds of Germany’s, and three-quarters of America’s factories are electrified.
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Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 30, 7 February 1930, Page 28
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158Electricity Interests English Women Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 30, 7 February 1930, Page 28
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