Source: Futility Closet When electricity first became widely available, it was hailed as marvel, more valuable even than a human servant. In a 1914 manual on using electricity in the home, Maud Lancaster wrote: [I]t is always at hand; always willing to do its allotted task and do it perfectly

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"noise" and "imprudence" indeed... Source: MichaelPRamirez.com

Meet Bjorn Freed, a wholesale agent by day who becomes an engineer by night. Recently he invented an awesome lamp from an old rotary phone. After turning it on with the hang up button, you can adjust the intensity of the light using the rotary dial. “Actually it was pretty simple,” Bjorn told