Electricity and Civilisation

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 26, 9 January 1931, Page 6

Electricity and Civilisation

Marvels of Science

E live in an age dominated by science (remiarks an English writer). Because we live so rapidly we rarely pause to think about the marvels which enable us to do so much, but if we do we are struck by one very forcible fact. Of the many dis- . coveries of modern seience, which means most to us? Dlectricity, surely. By means of electricity we can drive. a sewingmachine or a battleship. That little torch the doctor uses to examine your throat-it is lit by the same means as the Paris Opera and the street lamp. Dlectricity enables us to talk to our stockbroker across the street and send our 8.0.8. across the world. at the pace of 186,000 miles per second! It will warm your sitting-room, it will, cook your breakfast, and it will shatter erude ores and make them (isgorge their molten metal for the uses of man. '