On 3/7/2017 9:23 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2017-03-06 11:34 PM, dsi1 wrote:
>> On Monday, March 6, 2017 at 8:53:25 AM UTC-10, Janet wrote:
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>>> So you clearly implied that electricians' wiring work was a pretty
>>> good gig since before the Victorian age.
>>>
>>> Janet UK
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>> I clearly did not. Don't make connections that are not there. You
>> could have asked for clarification but you blew your chance. My point
>> was that even in this day an age, we still need to have electricity
>> and water connected to our house it the same way that it was done
>> since the beginning.
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> From the beginning of what?
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>> That is remarkable. A hundred or two hundred
>> years from now, we'll still be using electric wire and pipe. For the
>> foreseeable future i.e., the electrician will have a steady job.
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> If we had to trace the history of the electrical trades, what would be
> the starting date?
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Does lightening count?