Punch,  18 (1850), 19.

The Light of all Nations

Anon

Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Light, Invention, Politics


    Notes that the statesman Henry P Brougham (1st Baron Brougham and Vaux) illuminated Cannes with an electric light late one evening. Hopes that he will 'enlighten London with some of those powerful rays'.



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