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L. Frank Baum’s Cautionary Tale About the Gifts of Electricity

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Nowhere is that more evident than in his 1901 novel The Master Key: An Electrical Fairy Tale, Founded Upon the Mysteries of Electricity and the Optimism of Its Devotees. Both boys, real and fictional, were enthusiastic electrical experimenters. And so the Baums witnessed the electrical transformation of Chicago.

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