Commentary
Decades have gone by since our cities, towns, and houses were lit by humane colors and technologies. It’s true that I would like to go back to lanterns fueled by whale oil. I wasn’t around for streetlamps but I long for them. I admit it.
A view of the upstairs of Thomas Edison’s Menlo Park lab after its relocation to the Henry Ford Museum in Greenfield Village, with gas and electric light bulbs in the foreground, Dearborn, Mich., c. 1935. The arrow on the vacuum pump (center) marks the site of Edison’s recreation of the lighting of the incandescent bulb on Oct. 21, 1929. Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Jeffrey A. Tucker
Author
Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]
