George CarlinElectricity is really just organized lightning
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Thomas Edison was a brilliant man. He is most famous for inventing the light bulb. However, he was also a talented inventor of many other things. When Edison was nearing the end of his life, he had an idea about how to create electricity. The idea was that electricity is not really “light” or “heat” but rather is simply “organized lightning.” He believed that this would make it easier to create power plants and provide electrical service to more people.
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