even if h.j. rogers had been technically competent, and there were people who are technically competent to set up some of these early grades, there is a good chance he still would have failed. that is because of a business problem. in 1882, there were exactly one things that you could do with electricity. that was like a lightbulb. but you could not recoup the electricity costs of burning out at all. this was a huge problem. up until the 19th century, very few americans have any kind of experience dealing with businesses that required you to build this massive, expensive infrastructure before you could even get started. it was something that was affecting a lot of different industries at the time. not just electricity, but long-distance rail. in all of those industries, what you saw were companies failing over and over. h.j. rogers eventually went bankrupt. people who bought the electric utility all went bankrupt. so to the people who bought the electric utility from them. it was not until the 1920s that