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- Title
Night Vision: On finding comfort and purpose in the dark.
- Authors
DEAN, TAMARA
- Abstract
The article focuses on Rural Electrification Act (REA), which President Franklin D. Roosevelt had signed into law the previous year, provided stimulus for utilities to install poles and wires where, until then, it hadn't been economical to do so. It mentions electricity would give them lights, refrigerators, ovens, vacuum cleaners, washing machines, and irons they could plug into an outlet. It also mentions human deficiencies, engineers developed night vision goggles during World War II.
- Subjects
RURAL electrification; ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945; ELECTRIC utilities; VACUUM cleaners; WASHING machines; WORLD War II
- Publication
American Scholar, 2023, Vol 92, Issue 3, p40
- ISSN
0003-0937
- Publication type
Article