Bill Bryson Quote

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.

At Home: A Short History of Private Life (ed. Anchor, 2010) - ISBN: 9780385533591

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...

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...

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...

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...