…and almost one hundred fifty years since Thomas A. Edison began his experimentation with the electric light?
Marshall Fox, a reporter for the New York Herald, predicted that by the New Year, 1879, “The Wizard of Menlo Park, after ‘nourishing a youth sublime/With the fairy tales of science and the long results of time,’ will take his countrymen into his secret [and] present them with the ‘lucky horseshoe,’ the magician’s wand, which is destined to solve more problems on heaven and hearth than are dreamt of in the current philosophies.”
You will find the entire saga, exhaustively told, by turning to the index on p.524 of Edison: Inventing the Century.– still very much in print.