Electric lighting was first demonstrated in 1802. Candles only became an everyday commodity in 1850. The electric lighting pioneers and "finest candlemakers" were all chemists. The history of "advances in a field" is never neat or linear.
“The finest candlemakers in the world couldn’t even think about electric lights.”
-Alan Savory
The biggest advances in a field don’t come from the epicenter- they come from the fringe.
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