JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post 
The satirical sturgeon, the London Punch magazine, took many shots at innivation and invention over the years, mostly within the months and first year or two of the creation of whatever it was they were taking to the humor shed. Electricity was one such area, and there were many poems and cartoons and satirical slings thrown in its path. The “light bulb” as we know it didn’t quite exist in 1879 (the year of our cartoon) though the history of electric lighting was already quite long by that point–just not very effective, and certainly not in even limited distribution. (The next big step would be in 1880 with Edison’s vast improvement on the lightbulb.) Here’s a good example of Punch’s take on the electric light’s future –and the pallor of fish and fish sellers in the new era of artificial light: