"We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a singl...
Open your refrigerator door, and you summon forth more light than the total amount enjoyed by most households in the 18th century. The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed.
Photo by Ákos Szabó
Photo by Ian Turnell
Open your refrigerator door, and you summon forth more light than the total amount enjoyed by most h...
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