We all know that Thomas Edison popularised the use of the electric light bulb, but what relatively few people know about Edison is that he was very lucky not to die in a domestic conflagration. The problem was that even though Edison designed and manufactured a truly brilliant and revolutionary method of lighting the home which remained unmatched for the next hundred years, Edison's wife still insisted on filling their house with aroma-therapy candles and f*cking tea-lights and stinking 'essential' oils burners. Despite of this, just a few short years later, women were allowed to vote. This did of course lead directly to several polling stations catching fire and burning to the ground for men to rebuild.
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