With electricity we were wired into a new world, for electricity brought the radio, a crystal set [and] with enough ingenuity, one could tickle the crystal with a cat's whisker and pick up anything.
Source: In Search of History: A Personal Adventure, Harper & Row 78
-- Theodore H White, (May 6 1915-1986), US historian, author; He looks at American presidential politics, 1956 through 1980 in America in Search of Itself, 1986.