^"In 1890, a person ... could come home, switch on the electric
   light, make a phone call, go to the refrigerator and take out a
   cold beer, light a factory-made cigarette with a safety match,
   then sit down to listen to a phonograph record while reading a
   newspaper with news of the day from all over the planet. It was
   a new world, for none of those experiences had been possible 40
   years earlier, even to the wealthy."^