during his lifetime electricity what brings the greatest revolution that had ever come over the human world bread was a farm there were more people on farms in those days there had to be because living muscle did most of when joe grandpa's oldest son was big enough to help on the place the farm was one of the first in the country to be connected with wires from the local utility and the miraculous power began to help with a choice john himself has a farm now and he'll own does more work than grandpa could have done with a dozen hired hand him production through electric power has freed america from the soil more people can go to work producing goods because it takes less people working on farms to supply food for themselves and the rest of the nation is freedom to industrialize an agricultural country that change had already begun to take place when bill wilson was youngest son left the farm as a young man to work in the factory i and cumbersome blind shafts replaced by individual motors on each machine bill has seen the great progress made for electric power now there is less effort and more pay greater production better working conditions both john and bill to say nothing of grandpa had a tough time staying in school they had to go to work at an early age but jimmy still son will not only finish high school a different world than grandpa he was a boy the changes reached away beyond the home farm and school business and commerce to have been streamlined by electric power joan is perhaps has electricity to speed her work at the bank when she goes home from work she rides on a silent sliding trolley bus almost to her own door the house is much electric power is performing other unseen jobs the water faucets are connected with a modern electrically operated water treatment plant a garbage disposal to an electrically operated sewage pla the amazing part of it all is the fact that the electric power they use in their full costs less than it did when bill and ella were married back in one thousand twenty in a man's lifetime electric power has changed the world but not about the world that fred wilson's granddaughter will see the world of tomorrow tomorrow will bring innovations like the heat pump which electrically heated your house in winter in summer even in winter there is always heat in the air the soil and the water below ground level during the cold months the heat pump withdraws one from outside to heat your home in summer it operates much like your electric refrigerator withdrawing and expelling it from the inside air to provide cooling comfort and part of atomic energy chances are there will never be a handy home size atomic pile in your basement but experiments are already underway that point to a time like power plants like this the intense heat generated in an atomic pile produces steam to drive a battery of of nuclear fission is converted into the familiar flexible electric power beyond the tomic energy there is another limitless under developed source of power the energy in sunlight falling on the us daily is more than enough to supply all our requirements for food to eat and light to power our transportation and manufacturing today we use photosynthesis nature's way of turning light into chemical energy science is patiently unlocking the secrets of photosynthesis and we may well see an era where in solar energy like atomic energy may be put to work as electric power but there are electrical innovations long past the experimental stage not already areas tomorrow welcome to  electrical home of the future a new concept for living was elements are all practical possibilities now come in here as a living room with no wasted space for centuries the fireplace has been the center of attraction so here we have incorporated the modern age point of interest the television set this room looks like the rest of the house is light condition carefully planned lighting based on research and installed with a relay operated remote control wiring through this inexpensive system from its starting breakfast coffee by pressing a bedside swit turning off the radio with a switch near the top of the lights can be turned on ahead and turned off behind you as you walk through the r just off the living room is the electric kitchen organized to save steps time and energy the combination soda fountain and snack bars and join the electric laundry where clothes can be washed incorporated in the snack bar as the electric sink with the disposal and dishwasher here is greater freedom from drudgery then ever before indoor weather of this year old home is provided by the process the wonders of tomorrow and the way of life we have achieved depend on freedom to build and grow and the personal liberty that inspired the men of liking them but now our freedoms are threatened by forces that would crush our liberties and tyrannized the minds of men against these forces we have the weapons of freedom face and the creative spirit and we have the tools that build our way of life productivity america with only six percent of the world's population there's over forty percent of the world's good how can such a small percentage of the world's people produce so much here is one important reason every worker has at his command an energy on the equivalent of nearly seventy invisible workers at his command by nineteen fifty ten short years later this number had more than doubled there were on the job with him over one hundred fifty times with only eight horsepower of electric power why not still more horsepower why not two hundred three hundred five hundred invisible workers on the job household goods and guided missiles to preserve our freedoms for the greater world to come but we are not a nation of destroyers we are build we stand on the edge of that new age even now and the pioneering spirit flowing in the air of freedom will bream and build new ways to put electric power to work now and then times we may come to know