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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Sep 23, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 37.

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Light and Noise

By Cara S. Park

A MAN who knew little about electricity, had his house wired and a battery installed for the ringing of various bells. He thought that if a battery could ring a bell, it could make a light; and so he proceeded to run the wires up into his study. Then he adjusted a globe in the fashion of an electric light, turned on the current, and was greatly disappointed to find that he got no light.
About that time, an electrician came in, and seeing his predicament, said, "What is the matter?" "I don't know. I have a battery here that has been ringing all the bells for a long time, and it has never failed me. So I thought that it would light my study. I tried and failed." The electrician looked at him, and said, "Don't you know that it takes more power to make a light than it does to make a noise?" — Cara S. Park.