WHAT ELECTRICITY EARNS.
v TlioTsales an.d earnings of electrical apparatus (throughout .tho' world in '1907 have been dovtii'vat'£o6o,ooo,ooo sterling. " Know, said the President of" the Electrical; Association; of New South Wales, ml !iis' ahnnal address, " there is' noijhing which/makes you feel more than' .anything t)iit"' vou 'have, suddenly landed back' into the nidd'o, agiis than when you hear men, and prominent mon, stato that electricity is still in its/infancy, and that, therefore; they will defer for'a fow years before putting in olec-. trical ; plant. . You cannot hit a man 1 who saj-s ; a.,tiling iliko thiß. You aro too ovorffkajmcd..;, You can only pity his ignorance. iJqiiiM'apprcciato. Shakespeare's statoriient that 'ilioro .aro more tilings in heaven and earth, . Horatio, than nr" dreamt of in nur philosophy.' 1 No one contends that we have discovered all that wo have to discover in ("Iwilricity; but it is cOrtainly not in its infancy' in the sense iii which the particular ' Individuals referred' to -abovo said of it."
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 177, 21 April 1908, Page 11
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163WHAT ELECTRICITY EARNS. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 177, 21 April 1908, Page 11
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