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BULLETIN 102, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM
There has been a temporary and unwarranted faith in the possibilities of electricity replacing manufactured gas for cooking and house heating.
People generally are hopeful and expectant when any theory is advanced or any suggestion made as to the possibilities of improvement or development of electric service.
So many wonderful results have been attained by electrical experts in the past that the public mind is prepared for anythings short of an actual miracle.
When it is asserted that soon practically all the drudgery of labor will be eliminated by means of electrical appliances, and that heat will be released for our homes by simply turning an electric switch, with no dust or dirt, no laying in a supply of coal and no worrying over stoves and furnaces there is a ready response in the public mind, accepted more readily, no doubt, because the wish is father to the thought. [5]
[5] Public Utilities Commission of Idaho, Opinion on Electric Heating, Oct. 17, 1919, pp.7 to 21.
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ELECTRICITY CAN NOT REPLACE GAS
There has been a temporary and unwarranted faith in the possibilities of electricity replacing manufactured gas for cooking and house heating.
People generally are hopeful and expectant when any theory is advanced or any suggestion made as to the possibilities of improvement or development of electric service.
So many wonderful results have been attained by electrical experts in the past that the public mind is prepared for anythings short of an actual miracle.
When it is asserted that soon practically all the drudgery of labor will be eliminated by means of electrical appliances, and that heat will be released for our homes by simply turning an electric switch, with no dust or dirt, no laying in a supply of coal and no worrying over stoves and furnaces there is a ready response in the public mind, accepted more readily, no doubt, because the wish is father to the thought. [5]
[5] Public Utilities Commission of Idaho, Opinion on Electric Heating, Oct. 17, 1919, pp.7 to 21.
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