"Striking the electric chain wherewith we are darkly bound."

"Controlling fires is an enormously difficult challenge. Our research has shown that by applying large electric fields…"

"We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles."

"In 1881, Edison built electricity generating stations at Pearl Street in Manhattan and Holborn in London. Within a ye…"

"Is it a fact—or have I dreamt it—that by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibratin…"

"Without electricity, there can be no art."

"Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole."

"I'll put a girdle round about the earth In forty minutes."

"Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be Ere one can say "It lightens.""

"And fire a mine in China, here With sympathetic gunpowder."