Edison's TransformerIt was plaina black humming box Installed by him in 1905 A marker for his passed genius simplicity and imagination blended perfectly with no thought for appearance a reflection of him The substation supervisor bragged of it eighty years without a problem only yet another coat of paint outlasting all that followed He praised its creator how he came on the same train with his crew of workmen eating with them getting as dirty appearing like them though different and alone isolated not belonging to those he came from his dreams betraying the mind within unable to hide in overalls |