These newfangled electric lights will never be more than a niche product. If one of them burns out, you're in the dark until you can get down to the general store and get a new one. And if the power fails? Pffft, there's nothing you can do. There's no way they can overcome the advantages of whale oil lamps. In a pinch, you can burn anything in one of those babies. And you can use any old rag as a wick. You never have to be worried about being left in the dark. Besides, I refuse to believe that any true tallow-head could be satisfied by cold, sterile light without the heady smell of burning fat.
Nah, never going to happen.
(Inspired by filling up a rental car and being struck by how nineteenth-century the whole procedure felt.)
Nah, never going to happen.
(Inspired by filling up a rental car and being struck by how nineteenth-century the whole procedure felt.)
