Night Vision: On finding comfort and purpose in the dark.

The article focuses on Rural Electrification Act (REA), which President Franklin D. Roosevelt had signed into law the previous year, provided stimulus for utilities to install poles and wires where, until then, it hadn't been economical to do so. It mentions electricity would give them lights, refrigerators, ovens, vacuum cleaners, washing machines, and irons they could plug into an outlet. It also mentions human deficiencies, engineers developed night vision goggles during World War II.