It's been more than a century since Nikola Tesla wowed crowds by powering electric lamps at a distance.

一个多世纪前，尼古拉·特斯拉在远处为电供电，让人们惊叹不已。

There are 168 hours in a week; so men knew that the electric lamp had come to stay.

一周有168个时，所以人们知道，电已经可以持续亮了。

The boarding house of Sally Jordan was there. This was the first house in the world to be lighted by electric lamps.

莎莉·乔丹寄宿房子也在那里。这个博物馆是世界上第一座被电照亮房子。

Okay, next big advance after that is the electric lamp.

好，接下来重大进展是电。

They came with electric lamps this time.

这次他们带电来了。

Along the half-built walls, pierced with empty bays, the electric lamps threw broad bluey rays, of blinding intensity.

沿半建墙壁，穿过空荡荡海湾，电投射出宽广蓝色光线，强烈得令人眼花缭乱。

There is a wonderful story of footmen having to remove for cleaning all the electric lamps each morning, as if they were oil lamps.

有个有趣故事是说一名男仆每早起来都要卸下泡并清洁，搞得它们跟煤油。

I had a little electric lamp in my pocket, and shielding it with my cap I groped my way to the ice-box, opened it — and there was the little French melon... only one.

我口袋里有一盏电，我用帽子遮住它，摸索走到冰箱前，打开它——里面有法甜瓜… … 只有一个。

Gloria shuddered suddenly as a river siren came moaning over the dusky roofs, and leaning back in till the ghostly curtains fell from her shoulder, she turned on the electric lamp. It was growing late.

当河中警报器在昏暗屋顶上呻吟时，格洛丽亚突然打了个寒颤，她向后靠去，直到幽灵般窗帘从她肩膀上掉下来，她打开了电。天色已晚。

So with the rise in popularity of celluloid accessories came a wave of newspaper articles about combs combusting in people’s hair, setting their whole body on fire, just from the heat from a curling iron or a nearby electric lamp.

因此，随赛璐珞配饰流行度上升，报纸上出现了一系列关于梳子在人们头发中自燃，导致整个人体火报道，仅仅是因为卷发棒或附近电产生热量。