Britain has never fully come to grips with the discovery of electricity. In all but the newest buildings, electrical equipment and wiring run to as many different types and sizes as the fanciful British mind could devise. There are fused plugs and unfused plugs, plugs with two prongs and plugs with three prongs, with round prongs and square prongs. There are plugs the size of kumquats, walnuts, pingpong balls and lemons. Some appliances have three-strand wire, some two. The voltage may be either 210, 220 or 240or in a few areas, 110. When an American visitor tries to use a transformer...
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