The Prophet of the Electric Age: The Visionary World of Albert Robida In the twilight of the nineteenth century, as the gears of the Industrial Revolution began to turn with an almost feverish intensity, one artist looked beyond the soot and steam to glimpse a future charged with electricity and wonder. Albert Robida was not merely an illustrator or a novelist; he was a temporal voyager, a man whose pen traced the outlines of a century yet to be born. Born in the historic town of Compiègne in 1848, Robida possessed a rare intellectual duality, blending the meticulous precision of a trained n…