While our wireless set was just big enough for a very little man inside to do all that talking and make music too, it was just not understandable how he could get inside a thin gramophone record. I asked and all I got from my Dad was some very abstract stuff about sound waves and electricity. (ElectriCITY, as the word suggested, came from the nearest CITY and had something to do with all those smoking chimneys.) It was still not understandable to me, but it was reassuring that it was apparently understandable to my Dad.
A childhood belief about technology
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that electricity was manufactured in a factory in a place called 'Electriz City'.— Sally
- My music teacher once said that music in an electrical piano was made by little tiny men that lived inside it.Anon
- I used to believe electricity came from lightning.Anon
- i used to believe lava and water made electricityAnon
- i used to believe that the no outlet signs meant that noone in that section of the street had electricityAnon
- that God lives in the roof of our church and makes electricity to light the chandeliers— M