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

January 1, 1970

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Thomas Edison, in a statement to a reporter during the first public demonstration of his incandescent (31 December 1879), as quoted in Chronology of Americans and the Environment (2011) by Chris J. Magoc, p. 46.