Before he escapes Prometheus is dissecting a frog on a copper wire, equality then discovers electricity, which he explores in his tunnel underground. He makes a magnet move using electricity and creates a lightning rod outside of the tunnel. He explores his tunnel and discovers unidentified boxes with wires and switches and lightbulbs. Later Prometheus discovers how to make a lightbulb work. He believes he alone has made light. He has found the materials for making the lightbulb in the tunnel where he is hiding, and he used wires to make electricity flow through the lightbulb and produce light. He is amazed that the light has come from the heart of the metal, without the use of flint or fire. He compares the glowing flint to the crack in the walls of a prison. He realizes that he can provide clean and bright light for all the cities in the world. He thinks that all of that is his and he owns them because he is the only person in the world with this knowledge. These were secrets because the government didn’t want the people to know about electricity and lightbulbs. He thinks he has been taught that the Council of Scholars knows everything and that all men share all knowledge. He thinks that the secret of the earth are not for all men because you have to work to find the secrets and that not everyone in the society knows it.
Prometheus still decides to show his glass box to the World Council of Scholars because he thinks that electricity is the power of the sky, and that people from the Unmentionable Times had the power of the sky. He becomes an avid scientist, exploring the power of electricity, and in his