All hail electricity!

In connection with our editorial of this month, we show on this page a monument dedicated to the age in which we are living. Electricity, more than anything else, has made our present civilization what it is, and if this civilization should be wiped out by war or some other cataclysm, nothing would remain to tell what Electricity did for the race during the past century.

Hugo Gernsback never believed in doing anything by halves, so to show our appreciation for the wonders of electricity, he proposed building a 1,000-foot tall concrete statue to commemorate moving electrons.

Never mind how he expected to pour that much concrete at one time, I'm interested to see whether the interior would finish curing before the outer surface rots and crumbles.