COMMERCE AND SCIENCE.
Michael Faraday did not fifty yours ago believe in the commercial success of the electric light. Jt not seldom happens that commercial men fail to realise the value of scientific invention. Mr. Edison was interviewed a short time ago, ami he related his disappointing experiences with regard to electric tramways. He foresaw \ory early that electricity would take the place of horses in the traction of street cars. So he laid down a tramway, about three mile-* long, near his works at Menlo Park, and worked it electrically. This done, Edison invited a numbar of the finalcial magnates of New Yolk to see the line in operation. They came, they saw, and were not conquered. They laid their wise heads together, and told Mr. Edison there was no future for electric traction. He had offered to let them have the line for £B,OOO, which it had cost him, but they wouldn't hear of it.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2008, 1 October 1906, Page 7
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