The Greatest Invention

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 33, 28 February 1930, Page 26

The Greatest Invention

Tribute to Electricity

SPIRITED discussion is being carTried on in an American magazine as to the five best inventions. One writer unhesitatingly declares for electricity. He says that electrie power is running factories and mills to-day as never before, and goes on to state that the electric lamp alone does things that kerosene lamps could never do. Diminished to a pea-size, it tips the end of a surgeon’s instrument to light a delicate operation within the human body, and in thousands of cities controls the traffic. Another reader, in answer to one who bemoans the fact that inventions have done nothing to make life of man on earth any happier, takes electric light as a single instance, in contradiction. He cites a scientist, working on a great experiment. A few more hours’ work and it is done. It grows dark in his laboratory. He switches on the lights, and the expcriment, which might have failed if it were broken off in the middle, goes on, is successful, and humanity is bettered by it.