On Sat, 15 Jun 2019 20:25:25 -0500, dpb wrote:

On 6/15/2019 7:22 PM, Clare Snyder wrote:
On Sat, 15 Jun 2019 19:03:22 -0400, micky
wrote:
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You want 3 places to turn the dining room lights on and off. Do you
have 3 entrances to the dining room? Oh, you want one by the entry door,
so you can turn many lights on from one location. That's fine, but
makes it even stranger to me that you want to get rid of one location
for the dining room lights.
Situations like that are what low voltage control systems were made
for - Remote control.

Not so much in 1914...
There were actually remote actuated switches back then too - and they
were "wireless" - but not "cordless" - a series of strings and pullies
with a "rocker" that actuated the push-buttons.