Show new era began bagan with power over darkness among the most notable finds ct at an dent clent ur of the lie in mesopotamia under the joint auspices of the british museum and the university ol of pennsylvania are oil lamps of benu beau design dating to nearly years before christ revealing a batton older than that of europe thus however tar far hack back we are permitted to peep into the dim past the leader mr patterson said arlien a man with the lie same nature and feel ings as we lived and loed worked and died we find him facing the same problems as we do today in to lo regulate the light of day which entered his buildings and to supplement it at night as effectively as his bis knowledge would permit but from years before christ to 1800 A D close to years that knowledge took him no further than the use of a wick dipped in oil or later of the caudle candle made from out oat ural oil and too fate but with the beginning of the last century a new era began an era to in which dawned the possibility lity of unlimited light during the hours of natural darkness |