“You believe, of course,” I suggested, “that much remains to be
discovered in the realm of electricity?”
“It is the field of fields,” he answered. “We can’t talk of that, but
it holds the secret which will reorganize the life of the world.”
“You have discovered much about it,” I said, smiling.
“Yes,” he said, “and yet very little in comparison with the
possibilities that appear.”
“How many inventions have you patented?”
“Only six hundred,” he answered, “but I have made application for some
three hundred more.”
“And do you expect to retire soon, after all this?”
“I hope not,” he said, almost pathetically. “I hope I will be able to
work right on to the close. I shouldn’t care to loaf.”
Shouldn’t care to loaf! What a thought after fifty-two years of such
magnificent achievement.