Nero himself, given to lighting displays, would have envied the white-haired, alert inventor, with snapping eyes and snapping speech, who could burn, for an evening's divertisement a billion and 200 million candles. Surely an Emperor's diversion!
Yet the inventor with no imperial regalia sent aloft into the night sky a great kite, turned a switch and the great beam of his 1,200,000,000 candle light, pricking the darkness upward 30,000 feet, circled and swung and caught within its unblinking gaze the kite, too high for the ordinary eye to see. Was there then wassail...
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