Friday, February the 17th, 2006
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“The lighting of the exposition can barely be touched upon in a few paragraphs and it would be difficult to describe in words even if space were unlimited. It represented the power of light to beautify and to awe… It was a crowning achievement of a century of public lighting which began with Murdock's initial display of a hundred flickering gas-jets… It was a silent but pulsating display of grandeur dwarfing into insignificance the aurora borealis in its most resplendent moments.” — M Luckiesh, Artificial Light