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Re: HA philosphy



I wouldn't be surprised if the first electric light installations had
all the power switches in the pantry because it would be quite clearly
the butler's job to turn them all on/off :-)


On 10/4/06, David Gumbrell <david.gumbrell@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Currently pretty much everyone over a certain age understands mains
> switches, partly by learning and partly by convention - ie light
> switches tend to be higher than power switches and placed near doors.
> But I bet that this paradigm was arrived at after much experimentation
> on the introduction of electric light.


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