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“The Lords of Lightning we; by land or wave, The mystic agent serves us as our slave.”
—Henry Schütz-Wilson, one-time assistant secretary of the Electric Telegraph Company, Alpinist and writer. Illuminated motto composed for the June 6th 1872 President’s Conversazione at the Society of Telegraph Engineers , of which Schütz-Wilson was Secretary at the time.
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