Dear stales: shame on you. Insull really got a dirty deal. J.P.Morgan so diddled the stock market, where crookedness was very easy in those days, that investors panicked and sold out, causing Insull to go into bankruptcy, and as a crowning insult (sic) be labelled a crook. My enclopedia practically calls him a swindler. When I first heard of him fifty years ago he was called a swindler. He made a contribution of monumental proportions, and gets no credit.
Keiva spoke of early advocacy of a generator in every home. Terrible idea, inefficient, massive pollution, even dangerous. There is talk now of home generators run by fuel cells. Great for boondocks and third world, but suggesting it in big cities is insane.